Nasty Brazil, just gets worse.
 

20 years ago I got sick as shit from a beach in Rio. Now the 2016 Olympians are starting to have problems.


RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The waters where Olympians will compete in swimming and boating events next summer in South America's first games are rife with human sewage and present a serious health risk for athletes, as well as for visitors to the iconic beaches of Rio de Janeiro.

An Associated Press investigation found dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from sewage in venues where athletes will compete in the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic water sports.

In the first independent comprehensive testing for both viruses and bacteria at the Olympic sites, the AP conducted four rounds of tests starting in March. The results have alarmed international experts and dismayed competitors training in Rio, some of whom have already have fallen ill with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea.

These ailments could knock an athlete out for days, potentially curtailing Olympics dreams and the years of hard training behind them.

"This is by far the worst water quality we've ever seen in our sailing careers," said Ivan Bulaja, a coach for the Austrian team, which has spent months training on the Guanabara Bay. "I am quite sure if you swim in this water and it goes into your mouth or nose that quite a lot of bad things are coming inside your body."



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Ouch, pretty shitty way to start things:helpme

Same story every two years...

Sad sad sad.

The AP found another Olympic site thought to have been largely cleaned up in recent years, the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, is among the games' most polluted waters. Results ranged from 14 million adenoviruses per liter to 1.7 billion per liter.

By comparison, water quality experts who monitor beaches in Southern California become alarmed by viral counts spiking to 1,000 per liter.

Oh crap!

shocker, there's a reason why the olympics have never been hosted in a south american shithole.

"an expert in water risk assessment, examined the AP data and estimated international athletes at all water venues would have a 99 percent chance of being infected by the pathogens if they ingested just three teaspoons of water,"

+ if they have even the tiniest open wound....serious risk

One afternoon of feeling even slightly off could cause drastic performance issues for any of these athletes. The whole thing is absurd.

love Brasil :thumbsup

Until I went to the beach I did too.

Welcome to the TURD WORLD.

And to think that all the enviro-nazis have their panties in a wad about water quality in the States.

I knew the moment they awarded Rio the Olympics, that it was gonna be a shitfest.. No idea I'd be that right..

I still remember many years back during on of the F1 races there a Teams entire truck with the cars and all their stuff was stolen in Rio before the race.

I went to Rio 3 years ago for the first and last time and hated it. Dirty, loud, super expensive, restaurants sucked and the beaches are nasty.

They'll dump a few million gallons of pool-grade chlorine into the waters around Rio and everything will be good to go.


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i'm certain their security over the games will be much better.