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Timing awkward ahead of Games vote

Associated Press

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

ROME -- A World Cup swimming event scheduled for Rio de Janeiro next month has been canceled after organizers failed to come up with enough funding. The announcement comes at a particularly delicate moment, with Rio competing against Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo in Friday's vote to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. "There are no financial resources. They cannot find any funding. They say they cannot do it," Cornel Marculescu, the executive director of swimming governing body FINA, told The Associate ...

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