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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Two Irish Olympic executives have told Rio police that the head of their national committee, who has been arrested in a Summer Games ticket-scalping probe, was in sole charge of ticketing matters, a chief investigator said Thursday.Olympic Council of Irelands team leader Kevin Kilty and chief executive Stephen Martin spoke to police for almost four hours as witnesses in the investigation that has ensnared the OCIs longtime president, Patrick Hickey. Earlier this week Kilty and Martin were described as suspects.They cooperated with us in confirming the role of Patrick Hickey as the one who handled ticket operations. All of the actions were decided by him. So the police is putting together this puzzle, Ronaldo Oliveira, one of the head investigators, said.The two Olympic executives wore Irelands team tracksuits as they offered testimony.We are very happy to have cooperated. Nothing to say, sorry, Kilty said to reporters as he walked out of the police headquarters with Martin and another man.OCI Secretary-General Dermot Henihan spoke to investigators on Tuesday but they ruled out his involvement in the scheme, saying there was no evidence that indicated wrongdoing on his part.On Tuesday, Rio police said they suspected that the highest-ranking members of the OCI plotted with businessmen to help transfer tickets to an unauthorized vendor who would sell them for high fees disguised as hospitality services.The three officials passports, phones and laptops were seized in an Olympic Village raid hours before the closing ceremony. In Kiltys room, police found 228 tickets, which the Irishman told police were reserved for athletes but had been left unused.On Thursday, investigator Oliveira declined to say whether the tickets were being used illegally, adding that they were still investigating.Oliveira said that there was a good chance that the three OCI executives -- Kilty, Martin and Henihan -- would be given back their passports soon, enabling to return home.The alleged scheme unraveled at the beginning of the Games when Kevin Mallon, head of the British hospitality provider THG Sports, was arrested in Rio with tickets that were allocated to the Olympic Council of Ireland.Hickey, 71, was arrested last week in a dawn raid at his hotel and transferred to a hospital with chest pains.A member of the International Olympic Committees ruling executive board, Hickey was in charge of the influential umbrella group for Europes Olympic bodies.Now he faces charges of conspiracy, ticket scalping and ambush marketing, with authorities accusing him of being part of a plot to make $3 million by illegally selling Rio Games tickets above face value. 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Clarkson had been dealing with an elbow injury in early January and will be out of action for at least one week. He has three goals and five assists through 36 games with the Leafs this season. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Usain Bolt sauntered onto the track, stretched out his arms and waved his hands, signaling for more applause.He knew how this night was going to go.Bolts swan song in the Olympic 100 meters Sunday night was a no-doubter -- a pedestrian-by-his-standards 9.81-second sprint down the straightaway, but not so slow that he couldnt take time to point at his own chest with his thumb a step before he crossed the finish line.It was brilliant, Bolt said. I didnt go so fast but Im so happy I won. I told you guys I was going to do it.He won his record-setting third straight title in tracks featured event and his seventh Olympic gold.He has already swept aside pretty much every sprinter who had any claim on being the greatest.So, on a muggy night in Rio, Bolt took aim at Michael Phelps, shoving the swimmer and all his 23 medals to the background and made it official: The Bolt Games have begun.I told you guys I wanted to set myself apart from everybody else, Bolt said. This is the Olympics that I have to do it at.Bolt beat American Justin Gatlin, who was greeted by the fans with raucous boos, by .08 seconds. Andre de Grasse of Canada won the bronze.Bolt has a chance for two more golds -- in his favorite race, the 200 final Thursday, then in the 4x100 relay Saturday night.He wasnt the only one to put on a show Sunday.A few minutes before his race, world champion Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa eclipsed what many thought was the most-unbreakable record in the book -- Michael Johnsons 17-year-old mark of 43.18 seconds in 400 meters.Running out of Lane 8, where the lag puts him well in front of the rest of the field, van Niekerk never saw a soul -- crossing in 43.03 and only glancing to his left when he approached the line to peer at the clock, which showed him what he had done.Usain Bolt will be retiring soon, but this could be the next star of the sport, Johnson said during his commentary on BBC.But Bolt isnt done quite yet.The 6-foot-5 sprinter/celebrity overcame his typically slow unfurling from the blocks -- he was second-to-last after the break.I just said, `Take your time, and chip away, he said.Churning his legs to gradually build up speed, he eventually caught Gatlin with about 40 meters left and took it to warp speed. The rest was a matter of how hard he wanted to run to the line.Gatlin pursued him gamely, the way he has for years. He said the short turnaround between the semifinal and final sapped his strength.Once we got back to the second call, we really only had 30 minutes to get ready for the finals, Gatlin said.He finished with siilver to go with his 2004 gold and 2102 bronze and, at 34, became the oldest man to win a medal in a non-relay sprint.dddddddddddd And while Bolt was celebrating with anyone he could find, Gatlin was parading the American flag around the track virtually alone. The boos from the Brazilian crowd were the latest ugly chapter in Gatlins saga. Hes been caught for doping twice. His last ban ended in 2010. But fans in the stadium bought into the Good vs. Evil story line thats been pitched by the media for all these years, and they let the American have it.Thats the first time Ive gone into a stadium and theyve started to boo, Bolt said. It surprised me.A split-second after he crossed, Bolt raised the index finger, and then, the real party began.Bolt unlaced his now-famous gold spikes and took selfies with the fans. He turned his yellow hat backward, kneeled down and gave the crowd what it really wanted -- that famous, arching, To the World pose that he debuted eight years ago in Beijing.Chants of Bolt, Bolt, Bolt rang out from the near-capacity stadium. Yes, the show lived up to its billing.But this was not Bolt at his fastest. Four years ago, all three medalists broke 9.8. Nobody did this time, and neither Bolts world record from 2009 (9.58) nor his Olympic record from London (9.63) were ever in jeopardy.It was not Bolt at his toughest. Some might argue his gutsy effort at last years world championships, when he overcame a seasons worth of injuries to beat Gatlin by .01, might have been the grittiest race he has won.But it certainly took hard work. Before the Olympics, Bolt hadnt run a 100 since June 30, when he pulled out of Jamaicas national championships with injuries to his left hamstring.The rehab started immediately, with trips to Germany to see his doctor, then a warm-up 200 in London to prove to his Olympic committee that he was fit for the Olympics. Shortly after he arrived in Rio, he conceded that, yes, he wished hed had more chances to run in real races, but that everything would be OK.It was better than that. From the moments before he crouched into the blocks, putting his finger to his lips and asking for silence, until long after the race, when he worked the crowd, posed for photos, made the troubled world of track feel fun again.He turns 30 the day of the closing ceremony and has insisted his Olympic days are over.Somebody said I can become immortal, Bolt said. Two more medals to go and I can sign off. Immortal. ' ' '