The event in question is conducted in a 25-yard pool, a non-Olympic course not contested on the international stage.

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Most of us are probably not watching a lot of amateur wrestling on TV in our spare time during non-Olympic years.

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Under various Olympics rules, non-Olympic sponsors aren't allowed to use athletes in marketing around the Games, and athletes are barred naming their sponsors or other brands on social media.

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Gryner also said Rio was unlikely to suffer from the "ghost town" effect that blighted central London during the current Games, as non-Olympic visitors stayed away, fearful of transport chaos and long lines.

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To add to a successful night for Belarusian cycling, Tatsiana Sharakova (30 points) won the women's points race, another non-Olympic event, while Jarmila Machacova of Czech Republic (20 points) took silver and Giorgia Bronzini of Italy (14 points) collected bronze.

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Walcott's upset victory, only the second by a non-European in Olympic javelin competition, should act as encouragement to Yego, who is not short of self belief.

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It was this ability to think on his skis that secured his most famous non-Hahnenkamm victory at the Olympic Games in 1976 in front of a ecstatic home crowd in Innsbruck.

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The gathering - on the last day of the Olympic Games - will bring together world leaders, business figures, non-government organisations and development campaigners in an effort to generate renewed momentum behind tackling malnutrition in Africa and other parts of the world.

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