According to FIFA chief medical officiar Jiri Dvorak, every player on each of the 32 competing teams in the tournament had provided blood and urine samples for their drug tests. Dvorak said that the results from the 777 out-of-competition tests that were conducted between March 1 and June 11, and the additional 232 tests, four from each of the initial 58 matches played in Brazil beginning June 12, had all came back negative.
Argentina Team doctor Daniel Martinez declared on Sunday that di Maria's injury obtained during the first half of the quarterfinal match indicated that he incurred a "first-degree" strain. Although it was a mild strain, his injury would still not clear him to play for Argentina, Martinez said.
American professional cyclist Tejay van Garderen did not mince words about people who boldly take selfies on the road. He wrote on his July 7 tweet, "A dangerous mix of vanity and stupidity."
According to a Boko Haram vigilante, Abbas Gava, the women escaped from their captors on Friday after the militants had left their camp to attack a police station and military barracks in the town of Damboa. A high-level source in Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno, said around half of the women who escaped had already returned to their homes, no doubt to the delight of their families. The other half supposedly remained in custody by soldiers in the town of Gulak.
