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Russian Doping Scandal Is Making Some Rio Vendors Very Nervous

  • Russians booked Copacabana boat club to host athletes, VIPs
  • IOC to decide whether to ban country amid doping allegations
View of the Olympic rings placed at Madureira Park, on July 19, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photographer: Buda Mendes/Getty Images
Tariq Panja

Adriano Godoy, the owner of a cleaning services company in Rio de Janeiro, seems an unlikely figure to be closely monitoring the fate of the Russian Olympic team.

But Godoy’s firm is booked to work during the Games as bathroom attendants at Russia’s Olympic hospitality house at a private boat club near the Copacabana beach.