Posted on 05/08/2016 12:29:12 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
THIS summer, when the Olympic Games are held in Rio de Janeiro, marathon swimmers, sailors and triathletes will be asked to compete in the highly polluted waters of Guanabara Bay and off nearby Copacabana Beach. Any athlete coming into contact with these waters has a high probability of becoming ill. Members of the United States junior national rowing team and competitive sailors have become sick with diarrhea, vomiting and flulike symptoms after training and competing around Rio, and they experience only “incidental contact” with the water. Marathon swimmers and triathletes will ingest this water — and the consequences could be deadly.
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Why not? It should be the test of a true champion!
enjoy the diversity and socialism of Bazil !
Zika virus included at no additional charge...
Sewage and the Zika virus....why would anyone go to Brazil???
They get sick from the polluted Brazilian water? Who knew Olympic athletes were so racist? They need to check their privilege.
As long as right palms were greased at the IAC.
Wait, this country has been a socialist utopia under the current President. How could all these problems be??? NY Times, are you telling us the system doesn’t work?
Sounds like good advice to me.
However, if I was coaching an Olympic level swimmer, there is no way I’d bring him to the dark, gooey waters of Brazil and risk his health. Oh, and then there’s that pesky Zika thing.
Past time to bring in Mitt Romney!
Rahm Emanulmitney.
Let Hillary Clinton test the water several times!
The title of the article wins the DUH! Award of the Day.
Something the Olympic committee should have considered before choosing a city where they discharge raw sewage into the ocean.
And according to Obama, the ones who do win and are “successful” are just lucky. Lucky, I guess not to die of some horrible waterborne disease.
Which ocean was polluted by Hitlerberry?
They could have had the meet in china at the three Gorges Dam. Running shoes are the norm for swimmers there as you can walk on the polluted waters it’s so thick.
Nor should your readers.
Sounds just like the tap water in that part of the world. Besides, a brisk case of the trots should help those marathon swimmers squirt through the bay like torpedoes!
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