RIO 2016

The Associated Press FILE - Then President of the Rio 2016 Olympic Organizing Committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman, right, and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, second right, applaud during the opening ceremony of the 129th International Olympic Committee session, in Rio de Janeiro on August 1, 2016, ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Nuzman, the head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee for more than two decades, was sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for allegedly buying votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics. The ruling by Judge Marcelo Bretas became public Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The former head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee was sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for allegedly buying votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics.

Former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Nuzman has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison after being found guilty of bribing IOC members ©Getty Images

Former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for buying votes for the Brazilian city's successful bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

ATTENTIVE GROUP: Mikel Thomas, second from left, demonstrates a drill movement to the athletes as coach Antonia Burton, right, watches on at the ‘Learn By Doing’ Hurdles Clinic held at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Tuesday.

Over 30 athletes and coaches showed up to the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Tuesday to participate in the “Learn By Doing” Hurdles Clinic. The one-day session, the country’s first in three years, was led by Mikel Thomas, a three-time Olympian and national 110m record-holder, along with clinicians Shayne Cooper and Antonia Burton.

Bodybuilding appeared at this year's Asian Beach Games and has now been added to the programme for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima ©Danang 2016

Lima 2019 television rights for all areas outside of the Americas have been granted to the Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP) to distribute in a landmark agreement designed to roll out coverage of the event across the world.

NEW KEYS: Top local 400 metres hurdler Jehue Gordon shows off the keys to his new Belvedere, Maracas, St Joseph house, which was handed over to him by Minister of Housing Randall Mitchell, second from right, at the HDC headquarters on South Quay, Port of Spain, yesterday. Looking on are Minister of Sport Darryl Smith and HDC chairman Neuman George, left. —Photo: ROBERT TAYLOR

Top local 400 metres hurdler Jehue Gordon is grateful to finally receive the keys to his new HDC Belvedere, Maracas, St Joseph home.

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