MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the Rio Games (all times local to Rio de Janeiro):

8:40 a.m.

Three-time Olympic canoeing champion Katalin Kovacs of Hungary is retiring after failing to qualify for the Rio Olympics.

Kovacs, who also won 40 medals in world championships, including 30 golds, had a daughter in 2014 and said she wanted to spend more time with her family.

The 40-year-old Kovacs won the K-2 500 with Natasa Janics at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and was part of Hungary's victorious K-4 500 crew at the 2012 London Games. She also won five silver medals, including at least one in every Olympics between 2000 and 2012.

Kovacs said Friday that "over the past months it became clear to me that my dear family is first in my heart, not canoeing."

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6:29 a.m.

Russia's Sports Minister says 272 of the country's athletes have received approval from international sports federations to compete at the Rio Olympics under new restrictions imposed due to the Russian doping scandal.

Vitaly Mutko tells Russian media that "as of today, 272 athletes have definitely been admitted to the Olympics," adding that a final figure would be available Saturday.

Russia had originally planned to send a 387-person team, but that has steadily been reduced as federations removed those who had previously served doping bans and those implicated in World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren's report alleging a massive cover-up of failed drug tests.

Russia's largest losses are in track and field, with 67 of 68 athletes barred, while the situation remains unclear in some sports, notably weightlifting and boxing.

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5:35 a.m.

The sports chief of the Russian Olympic team in Rio says Russian athletes who arrived in Rio early are under scrutiny of WADA doping agents.

Igor Kazikov told state-owned television channel on Friday that every member of the team who had arrived by Thursday has already been tested for doping at least once.

"I can see that every morning doping agents come and take their samples," Kazikov said. He added, however, that he was not sure how that compares to how often athletes from other countries get tested.

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5:31 a.m.

Russia says its taekwondo team has been approved to compete at the Rio Olympics against the backdrop of the country's doping scandal.

Under International Olympic Committee rules introduced last week following accusations of a vast state-sponsored doping cover-up, Russian athletes must be individually approved by international sports federations and rejected if they previously were banned for doping offenses or implicated in the alleged cover-up.

Anatoly Terekhov, head of the Russian Taekwondo Union, says all Russians entered for taekwondo in Rio have been approved by the World Taekwondo Federation, in comments to Russian agency R-Sport.

Terekhov says he received a letter from the WTF and that "we were told that all three of our athletes have officially been admitted to compete in the Olympic Games."