LONDON (AP) – The Latest on the developments in the Olympic world (all times local):
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9:35 a.m.
Kenya’s sports minister says the country will rush through changes to anti-doping legislation in an attempt to be compliant with global rules, and avoid the possibility of being excluded from track and field at the Olympics.
With the Rio de Janeiro Games less than three months away, Sports Minister Hassan Wario says there can be a swift solution following the World Anti-Doping Agency’s decision to declare Kenya non-compliant.
Wario says WADA has told Kenyan authorities which parts of the law are problematic. Wario says “as soon as parliament reviews those highlighted bits of the legislation we are fully compliant.”
Wario has also been summoned by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to explain why WADA rejected Kenya’s new legislation.
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8:10 a.m.
Japan’s Olympics minister says Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics was fair, despite fresh allegations of bribery.
French prosecutors said Thursday that $2 million associated with Tokyo’s bid was apparently paid to an account linked to the son of the disgraced former IAAF president Lamine Diack in the months immediately before and after Tokyo won the games.
Toshiaki Endo says he is proud Tokyo’s bid “was seen to have been conducted in the fairest manner among all the candidate cities. So I believe there was no such thing (as the payments) and I believe there couldn’t be.”
Tokyo organizers say they have no knowledge of such payments and the city won the rights to host the games because it presented the best bid.