Rio Olympics, raw sewage

The Slatest has an article by Ben Mathis-Lilley about Rio:

The Associate Press reported in July of 2015 that water quality at the outdoor sites scheduled to host competitions during next summer's Rio de Janeiro Olympics was not great.
Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Viruses and bacteria were both present in dangerous levels, the news organization said, at venues set for use in sailing, swimming, canoeing, and rowing events. This weekend one of those venues, Rodrigo de Freitas lake (photo), hosted a junior rowing competition. Here's what happened:

Thirteen rowers on the forty-member US team came down with stomach illness at the World Junior Rowing Championships— a trial run for next summer’s Olympics— and the team doctor said she suspected it was due to pollution in the lake where the competition took place.
Four staff members, including the team's coach, also fell ill. The (sort of) good news, The Associate Press says, is that the US team was the only international squad at the competition that suffered from unusual levels of sickness.

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