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Now for the rumours behind the news. The Australian Olympic Committee has given the green light to disgraced coach Gennadi Touretsky and will allow him to go to Atlanta to coach his swimmers, Michael Klim, Matthew Dunn, Petria Thomas, and of course, Alexander Popov. The coach of Samantha Riley, who admitted to giving her a banned substance in a headache tablet before the Short Course World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, is under an international suspension from FINA and is not on the list of coaches going to Atlanta. But the AOC will select him if he wins an appeal against the suspension in the International Court of Arbitration for Sport. Costly mistake The final chapter of the Pankratov scandal is making for some long faces at the French Swimming Federation.