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International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach, from Germany, speaks during a press conference after the Olympic Summit IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday. Olympic leaders met to consider further measures to crack down on doping ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in the wake of the ban on Russian track and field athletes. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Count FIFA and the IOC among many problems in Rio de Janeiro as Olympics near

By Thom Loverro - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2012, file photo, United States' Katie Ledecky poses on the podium with her gold medal in the women's 800-meter freestyle swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Ledecky has been the world record holder in the 1,500-meter freestyle for almost three years, but the metric mile has never been part of the Olympic program for women. The longest event the 19-year-old can tackle at the Summer Games is the 800 free. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Katie Ledecky won’t have chance to win Olympic gold medal in one of best events

By Paul Newberry - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, a health workers stands in the Sambadrome spraying insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

SNYDER: No need for unnecessary risks by holding Olympics in Rio de Janeiro

By Deron Snyder - The Washington Times

United States' Ali Krieger (11) in action during the second half of an international friendly soccer match against Colombia, Sunday, April 10, 2016, in Chester, PA. The United States won 3-0. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

Ali Krieger trying to ward off Olympics thoughts with Spirit season set to begin

By Thomas Floyd - Special to The Washington Times

In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. The mosquito behind the Zika virus seems to operate like a heat-driven missile of disease. Scientists say the hotter it gets, the better the mosquito that carries Zika virus is at transmitting a variety of dangerous illnesses. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Health officials want more Zika samples, data from Brazil

By Maria Cheng and Raphael Satter and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

In this Nov. 10, 2015 photo, trash litters Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A new round of testing by The Associated Press shows the city’s Olympic waterways are as rife with pathogens far offshore as they are nearer land, where raw sewage flows into them from fetid rivers and storm drains. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

AP test: Rio Olympic water badly polluted, even far offshore

By Brad Brooks - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015 photo released by Inovafoto, U.S. rowers, from left, Kaitlyn Kynast, Dana Moffat, Marlee Blue and Katy Gillingham celebrate winning the Junior Women's Four - Final competition at the World Rowing Junior Championships at Rodrigo de Freitas lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. American rowing officials are investigating why some rowers on their team came down with gastrointestinal illness at the contest, an event that concluded over the weekend and is being used as a trial run for next year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics. (Alexandre Loureiro/Inovafoto via AP)

Some U.S. rowers fall ill at 2016 Olympics test event

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this July 12, 2015 photo, a boy walks with his father's catch of the day from the Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The head of Rio's Infectious Diseases Society said contaminated waters in beaches and lakes has led to &quot;endemic&quot; public health woes among Brazilians, primarily infectious diarrhea in children. By adolescence, he said, people in Rio have been so exposed to the viruses in the water their bodies build up antibodies. But foreign athletes and tourists won’t have that protection. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

AP Investigation: Filthy Rio water a threat at 2016 Olympics

By BRAD BROOKS and JENNY BARCHFIELD - Associated Press

This July 27, 2015, aerial photo shows the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An Associated Press analysis of water quality found dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues. The Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, which was largely cleaned up in recent years, was thought be safe for rowers and canoers. Yet AP tests found its waters to be among the most polluted for Olympic sites. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio’s filth

By Brad Brooks and Jenny Barchfield - Associated Press

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff watches as Vice President Joe Biden puts his glass on a table after a toast during a luncheon in her honor, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

2 years after spying flap, U.S., Brazil seek to turn the page

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Tourism Ministry removes fake photos of Rio bay

By JENNY BARCHFIELD - Associated Press

A woman from Brazil and a man from Argentina dance samba at the World Cup Fan Fest 2014, on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. The flood of foreign football fans, the vast majority of them men, has been a boon for the single ladies of Brazil, where a demographic imbalance means women outnumber men by more than 4 million nationally. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

World Cup: It’s raining men in Brazil as women samba with visitors

By Jenny Barchfield - Associated Press

A Spanish soccer fan holds her head as she watches, on a giant display, the World Cup soccer match between Spain and Chile, in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

World Cup stunner: Spain eliminated with loss to Chile

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Police guard the streets near the Maracana stadium before the game between Argentina and Bosnia during the 2014 soccer World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rio officer shoots live round during Cup protests

By Bradley Brooks and Raul Gallego Abellan - Associated Press