Despite repeated assurances by Olympic officials, it appears more certain than ever that 2016 boating and surfing events in Brazil’s Guanabara Bay and Rodrigo de Freitas Lake will be conducted in water so polluted with human sewage that every athlete will almost certainly be struck with fever, vomiting and diarrhea.
An Associated Press report in August revealed that the waters’ virus levels (of fecal coliform and other viruses) are as high as 2 million times the level that would close down a California beach. Meanwhile Olympic and local officials continue to insist that the water will be safe by next summer, but, as the AP pointed out, their protocols test only for bacteria and not viruses.
One US water-quality expert has in fact advised all athletes to move to Rio ahead of the Olympics – to try to build up an immunity.
— Source: www.newsoftheweird.com
