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Rio Olympics 2016: Football kicks off Games before opening ceremony

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Rio 2016 officially gets under way with the opening ceremony on Friday - but did you know football kicks off the action two days earlier?</div>
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The first group stages of the women's tournament take place on Wednesday - so-called day -2 - with Sweden facing South Africa, while the men's group stages start on Thursday, when Iraq play Denmark (both 17:00 BST).</div>
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Here's all you need to know.</div>
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Why does football start early at the Olympics?</h3>
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It's simply for scheduling reasons, as it was at London 2012.</div>
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With 16 men's and 12 women's teams, there are 58 matches to get through. There is football being played on 12 days of the tournament, with six rest days.</div>
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Barcelona forward <b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Neymar</b> will captain a Brazil squad aiming to win its first Olympic gold medal.</div>
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The hosts also have Lazio midfielder <b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Felipe Anderson</b> in their squad along with Neymar's Barca team-mate <b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rafinha</b> and Paris Saint-Germain defender<b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marquinhos</b>.</div>
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Meanwhile, Tottenham forward <b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Son Heung-min</b> will represent South Korea and Chelsea's John Mikel Obi brings experience for Nigeria.</div>
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Five-time women's world player of the year <b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marta</b> competes in her fourth Olympics for Brazil, while her 38-year-old team-mate <b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Formiga</b> is going to her sixth Games and is looking to continue her streak of appearing at every women's Olympic football tournament.</div>
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The reigning world and Olympic champions USA have seven gold medal winners in their line-up. Among them is goalkeeper <b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope Solo</b>, who could win a record fourth Olympic title at Rio, and current world player of the year <b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Carli Lloyd.</b></div>
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Team GB fielded men's and women's teams at London 2012, with both sides knocked out at the quarter-final stage.</div>
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The English Football Association had hoped to have both teams in Rio, but they failed to gain support from the other home nations and Fifa was not willing to accept a Great Britain team without players from every one of the home nations.</div>
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Qualification is also based on tournament results and while England's women would have earned their place by finishing third at last year's World Cup, the men's failure to get past the group stage of the European Under-21 Championships would have denied them.</div>
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Team GB qualification is based on England's results because the English FA is the national governing body on the BOA.</div>
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"I'm really disappointed that these next set of players won't have that opportunity in Rio," said former England striker Kelly Smith, who was part of Team GB's 18-strong squad at London.</div>
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"It's a great experience and you get to play against the best teams and players from across the world. It's disheartening they couldn't get a side together. The Americans view this as the ultimate."</div>
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How big is Olympic football?</h3>
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Even though it was not included in the Olympic programme until 1996, the women's competition is often seen as more prestigious than the men's, which is age-restricted (only three men in each squad can be over 23).</div>
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For many Brazilians, the men's football tournament will be the most important part of the Games - especially on home soil, where they are looking to win their first ever gold medal in the sport.</div>
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Who are the favourites?</h3>
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Hosts Brazil are the firm favourites to take the men's title after the disappointment of losing in the final at London 2012.</div>
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Defending champions Mexico could prove a difficult opponent again, while Germany also have a strong team.</div>
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In the women's event, the USA won gold in 2012 and the World Cup last year, while the European trio of France, Germany and Sweden will also be strong.</div>
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Lizzie Armitstead says she was "very naive" for not challenging the first of three missed drugs tests until her Olympic place was in jeopardy.</div>
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The British world road cycling champion was suspended on 11 July pending disciplinary action but appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).</div>
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She successfully argued the first of the tests should be declared void.</div>
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UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) says Armitstead, 27, did not challenge the validity of the first two missed tests at the time.</div>
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Armitstead <a class="sp-story-body__external-link" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3720407/Lizzie-Armitstead-reveals-fears-missing-Rio-Olympics-banned-s-scared-about.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told the Daily Mail:<i aria-hidden="true" class="sp-story-body__external-link-icon gelicon gelicon--external" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: gelicons-core !important; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; speak: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></i></a> "I did think about it [challenging the first 'failure'].</div>
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"The reason I didn't was because it was my first strike and it was very close to the World Championships, so I was travelling to America.</div>
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"I also didn't have the legal advice. It felt very much them against me. I was very naive. I went ahead to the World Championships and I didn't want the distraction."</div>
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In a statement, Ukad chief executive Nicole Sapstead said it respected the outcome of the Cas hearing but wanted to know the "reasoned decision" why the first test failure was not upheld.</div>
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Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Sapstead added: "I'd like to think that we are a reasonable organisation and we don't bring cases against athletes unless we see reason for doing so."</div>
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Armitstead was Britain's first medallist of London 2012 with silver in the road race and is one of the favourites for the same event in Rio on Sunday.</div>
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She admitted the prospect of being banned had left her feeling like she was "standing on the edge of a cliff", adding: "I was more concerned about my reputation and people's understanding of it.</div>
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"I could have been banned. That's what I was most scared about. All the hard work being for nothing."</div>
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Armitstead won the world title in Richmond, in the United States, last September.</div>
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The news of Armitstead's missed tests was revealed by the Daily Mail,<i aria-hidden="true" class="sp-story-body__external-link-icon gelicon gelicon--external" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: gelicons-core !important; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; speak: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></i>which said she was supported by a legal team funded by British Cycling.</div>
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However, a British Cycling statement said: "We paid for legal advice on our own position because there were a number of considerations as she was going through the Olympic selection process and was a podium athlete.</div>
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"That legal advice was shared with Lizzie and her team. Lizzie herself funded the actual appeal to Cas."</div>
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Reaction</h3>
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Great Britain's Nicole Cooke, the road race champion at Beijing 2008 said the drug-testing system "does allow for athletes to notify the testing authorities either by sending a text message or ringing a hotline up to one minute before the one-hour window opens and changing it".</div>
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Cooke and Armitstead, team-mates at the London Olympics, were involved in a fallout<i aria-hidden="true" class="sp-story-body__external-link-icon gelicon gelicon--external" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: gelicons-core !important; font-size: 0.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; speak: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></i> at the 2011 World Championships after Cooke rode on when Armitstead crashed.</div>
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"In 14 year of tests I have one recorded missed out of competition test," added Cooke. "Fair rules to be applied fairly, at all times, to all athletes."</div>
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Armistead's reprieve has also caused some concern amongst other Olympians.</div>
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British rower Zac Purchase, who won Olympic gold in 2008, said British Cycling and the Armistead camp were guilty of a "monumental cock-up".</div>
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He added on social media: "Imagine what we would be saying if she was Russian... #NotWorthIt #KeepSportClean."</div>
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Canadian three-time Olympian cross-country mountain biker Geoff Kabush also posted on social media. He said: "1st test understandable but I'd be hyper aware about missing 2nd. If I missed 2nd there is no chance I'd miss 3rd???</div>
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"So many questions. How is World Champ suspended for 3 weeks and no one knows?"</div>
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What British cyclists are saying</h3>
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"This is one for the authorities and you have to hope they make the right decision."</div>
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"With such a hectic race schedule you do make mistakes - but I was surprised when I saw the news.</div>
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"It's difficult for her. I fully think that Lizzie is a clean athlete, I've got no doubts about that."</div>
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Athletes must make themselves available for testing for one hour each day and inform testers of their location.</div>
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Had Armitstead been found to have missed three tests in less than a year, she would have violated the World Anti-Doping Agency's code and faced a ban of up to two years.</div>
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A statement on Armitstead's behalf said she was charged by Ukad on 11 July with three so-called 'whereabouts' failures, leading to a suspension pending disciplinary action.</div>
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Armitstead did not dispute the second two faults, but successfully appealed to Cas over the first missed test, which happened at a team hotel in Sweden.</div>
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She undertook in-competition testing the following day, as leader of the UCI Women Road World Cup.</div>
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"Cas ruled the Ukad doping control officer had not followed required procedures nor made reasonable attempts to locate Armitstead," the statement added.</div>
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Olympic losers: Why is India so bad at sport?

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"We have never won a medal for running," says the Indian sprinter Dutee Chand, "but with God's grace I will get to the finals and I will win one."</div>
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If the fastest woman in India succeeds, it will be a breakthrough for Indian sport.</div>
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The world's second most populous nation has the worst Olympic record in terms of medals per head.</div>
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It has won only one gold medal, for the men's 10m rifle in 2008.</div>
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In London, in 2012, it bagged its best haul, six medals, or one for every 200 million people.</div>
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In 2008, it got just three medals. Before that, it was lucky to come home with a single medal.</div>
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Compare India's performance with minnows such as Grenada and Jamaica, which regularly get a medal for every couple of hundred thousand people.</div>
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So why isn't India punching its weight?</div>
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One reason is undoubtedly money.</div>
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India, despite its space programme and burgeoning population of billionaires, is still a very poor nation in terms of per capita income, and sport has never been a priority for the government, according to Shiva Keshavan.</div>
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Keshavan is far and away India's greatest Winter Olympian.</div>
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He competes in luge, a kind of super-fast sledge. In two of the past five Winter Games, he was the only Indian to qualify, the only member of a team of one. Yet his ticket to Sochi was paid not by the Indian government but by crowdfunding.</div>
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And the lack of government - or any other - funding has also seen Keshavan adopt an eye-poppingly dangerous training regime.</div>
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There are no luge facilities in India, so he <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrZ_MFoWo00" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">screwed wheels to the bottom of his sledge and practised on Himalayan roads</a>, overtaking cars and lorries to reach speeds of up to 100km/h. (62mph)</div>
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"At one point I couldn't sustain my career," says Keshavan.</div>
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"I couldn't go for training, I couldn't go for competitions because I didn't have the money for that, so I started looking for sponsorship. And I actually went to 100 companies before one of them said yes."</div>
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He believes the chronic lack of resources has undermined his performance, and that of most other Indian athletes.</div>
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"I think to be sustainable we have to have a proper system for athlete selection and training from a young age," he says.</div>
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The Indian Olympic Association admits the country has not always done enough to support its athletes, but says there is more to India's sorry performance than just a shortage of cash or organisation.</div>
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Its head, Narayana Ramachandran, says sport is rarely at the top of anyone's agenda - and that includes athletes and their families.</div>
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"Sport has always taken a back seat vis a vis education," he says.</div>
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Most Indian families would prefer their children became dentists or accountants than Olympians, Mr Ramachandran says.</div>
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"Families tend to give their children more education," he says.</div>
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"The view is concentrate on education, rather than sport. The basic feeling is that sport doesn't bring the money that is required to run a family."</div>
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India's cultural and caste traditions play a role too, according to Prof Ronojoy Sen, of the University of Singapore.</div>
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He has written a book on the history of sport in India and believes the country's poor Olympic record has deep roots.</div>
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Even when people excel in sport, they are often been discouraged from pursuing it to top levels, by their families and wider community.</div>
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And social stratification has meant different castes tended not to play sport together.</div>
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"The lower castes constitute the bulk of India's population, and these lower castes are also the ones who don't have access to education, don't have access to good nutrition, health," Prof Sen says.</div>
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"That has meant that a large part of India's population hasn't been able to take part in sport, and hasn't had access to sporting facilities."</div>
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Now, private companies are stepping in to try to fill the gaps.</div>
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They are following the example of countries such as Australia and the UK, which have dramatically increased their medal count by investing in elite selection and training programmes.</div>
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It has been estimated that <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/datablog/2012/aug/13/olympics-2012-cost-per-medal-team-gb-funding" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">each medal the UK won in 2012 cost £4.5m</a>.</div>
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Maneesh Bahuguna, of Anglian Medal Hunt, which is funding a number of predominantly lower-caste athletes, including Dutee Chand, believes its efforts will - in time - deliver results.</div>
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"What we bring to the table for these athletes is the ability to bridge the gap between those best practices that are unavailable to them otherwise and the final performance at the Olympic Games," Mr Bahuguna says.</div>
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"We improve their conditioning, physical and mental, by leaps and bounds."</div>
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India is fielding its best-trained and biggest-ever team in Rio.</div>
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It is hoping deliver on the promise of the country's vast population, reaping rewards on the winner's podium.</div>
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The 44-year-old is working alongside Carlo Ancelotti at the Bundesliga champions, after being sacked as Derby County boss earlier this year.</div>
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"Following recent media reports I would like to clarify the situation with regards to a possible role with the England national team," he said on Tuesday.</div>
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"After consultation between FC Bayern, the [English] Football Association and myself, it was decided that it is in the best interests of everyone involved for me to concentrate solely on the job I have in Munich.</div>
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Clement linked up again with Ancelotti in June, having previously worked with him at Chelsea, Real Madrid and Paris St-Germain.</div>
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Jul 17, 2016- Nepali national team midfielder Jagjeet Shrestha has signed for Australian second-tier club Hume United FC. Hume United plays in the National Premier Leagues which acts as the second tier of the sport in the country below the A-League.</div>
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Shrestha has signed 18 months contract with the club. Yeti Football Club, a club formed by Nepalese in Melbourne, had aided Shrestha for the signing.</div>
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“I am delighted with the opportunity to play in the Australian second division,” Shrestha said to Kantipur. Shrestha will receive a monthly salary of $1,500 from the club.</div>
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Shrestha has won 33 caps for Nepal. He was playing for Lalitpur-based Three Star Club before signing for Hume United.<br />
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