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24 Obviously, there is a need for assessment tools, which can discriminate between those athletes ready and athletes not ready for RTP.
The US basketball teams are staying away from the action (and the not quite visitor-ready athletes' village) in their own luxury cruise ship, the Silver Cloud, despite star player Jimmy Butler's apparent fear of water – and not for the reasons other Rio competitors are nervous of it.
But Dorsey never set out to just create a training program -- even though OMYGA does turn out extremely gifted and NCAA-ready athletes.
"If the village is not ready, the athletes cannot arrive," he said.
"If the village is not ready and athletes can't come, obviously the implications of that are that [the event] is not going to happen.
Mr Currie told New Zealand commercial radio on Tuesday: "If the village is not ready and athletes can't come, obviously the implications of that are that it's not going to happen.
The Russian athletes seemed dispensable, almost as if there was another athlete ready to come off the production line and replace them if they didn't do the job required of them.
And don't count the prime minister out just yet; one Zapatero ally describes the prime minister as "a top-class political athlete," ready for anything.Mr Zapatero's only consolation at the bottom of the polls is the company he keeps: Mariano Rajoy, leader of the PP, fares even worse by some counts.
Move over Donald Driver, there may just be another athlete ready to steal the dancing spotlight.
"We've worked tirelessly in the face of lots of challenges to get the village ready for our athletes," the English team's chef de mission, Craig Hunter, said as the athletes' village in the east of the city was officially opened last night.
