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                    [Title] => Athletes in Rio stay inside, slather on repellent for Zika
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Aline Silva has had the dengue fever twice, and she's not taking any chances with the Zika virus.

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Brazil is an epicenter of the rapidly spreading Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease that Brazilian scientists say is linked to a rare birth defect.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-31 23:31:11 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1756704 [AuthorName] => Stephen Wade [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/sports/20160122/ps-rio-olympics.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1545200 [Title] => Rio rescinds contracts for Olympic tennis, equestrian venue [Summary] =>

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has rescinded contracts for venues for Olympic tennis and equestrian events for what the city calls "noncompliance to contractual clauses."

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has defended the environmental impact of the Rio 2016 Games after activists tried to disrupt a meeting of the organization's top officials on Saturday.

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Despite heavy pollution blanketing Beijing on Sunday, an international marathon went ahead, with face masks and sponges among the paraphernalia used by competitors to battle the smog.

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I am leaving Sydney today for the nth time.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134310 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805291 [AuthorName] => Paulynn Sicam [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1310632 [Title] => Government, Rio 2016 officials offer assurances [Summary] =>

Top officials of the 2016 Rio Olympics and the chief of staff for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff met for two hours Tuesday and repeated assurances that, despite well-publicized delays, test events and the games themselves will meet proposed deadlines.

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Sochi Olympic organizers say more than 80 percent of tickets to events have been sold.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-07 16:48:28 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1286229 [Title] => Sochi city hall orders killing of stray dogs [Summary] =>

A pest control company which has been killing stray dogs in Sochi for years told The Associated Press on Monday that it has a contract to exterminate more of the animals throughout the Olympics.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-03 18:31:30 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1535941 [AuthorName] => Nataliya Vasilyeva [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 875699 [Title] => $470M transformation of London's Olympic Park [Summary] =>

Nearly four months after Michael Phelps ended his glittering Olympic career in London, the final seats of the swimming venue are being removed.

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