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Athletes at Rio Olympics 'will literally be swimming in human crap'
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Seven years ago the Rio de Janeiro government promised to clean up the water before the 2016 Olympics.
Not only did they fail to clean it up -- it has actually gotten worse.
According to the New York Times, recent tests by government and independent scientists have found the city's waters to be full of diarrhea-causing rotaviruses and drug-resistant "super bacteria," among other pathogens.
This is the same water in which Olympians will sail, windsurf and -- yes -- swim starting on Aug. 5.
"Foreign athletes will literally be swimming in human crap, and they risk getting sick from all those microorganisms," local pediatrician Dr. Daniel Becker told the Times. "It's sad, but also worrisome."
http://www.cbssports.c
Seven years ago the Rio de Janeiro government promised to clean up the water before the 2016 Olympics.
Not only did they fail to clean it up -- it has actually gotten worse.
According to the New York Times, recent tests by government and independent scientists have found the city's waters to be full of diarrhea-causing rotaviruses and drug-resistant "super bacteria," among other pathogens.
This is the same water in which Olympians will sail, windsurf and -- yes -- swim starting on Aug. 5.
"Foreign athletes will literally be swimming in human crap, and they risk getting sick from all those microorganisms," local pediatrician Dr. Daniel Becker told the Times. "It's sad, but also worrisome."
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It's been like that for two days and it's making me even more crazy.
It's been like that for two days and it's making me even more crazy.
Besides chewing on their medals [goodhousekeeping.com] and accepting those weird statues [goodhousekeeping.com], top athletes usually earn prize money from their country's Olympic committee. For the United States, gold, silver and bronze earn $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000 respectively. That means Phelps will earn $140,000 in Rio alone and a whopping $650,000 across all five of his games appearances.
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Click link below to see what some of the other countries pay their athletes and read the rest of the story.
(Azerbaijan pays $510,000 for a gold medal)
http://www.goodhouseke
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Judicial sources say they believe the pair are no longer in Brazil.
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The judicial sources said police were concerned that Lochte had said only one man was involved in the robbery while his team mate testified that several men had robbed them.
The source also said police were puzzled by video footage of the swimmers returning to the Athletes Village physically well and joking with one another.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us...SKCN10S1GK
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In a statement released on the court's website Wednesday, Blanc said that in Lochte's testimony to police, he said the athletes were stopped early Sunday by one robber who demanded all their money: $400. Blanc said that Feigen, however, told police that the athletes were surprised by multiple robbers but that only one was armed.
Security footage published by the Daily Mail showed the men arriving at Rio de Janeiro's Athletes' Village appearing unfazed by their ordeal. Braziilans have reacted with anger to what many perceived as a false account of a robbery and began conjecturing over what might have happened.
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are the closing ceremonies meaning we must prevent a ratings disaster by watching the ceremonies since theyre competing with WWE summerslam and most of all "Fear the Walking Dead".
today is the men's basketball semifinals, tomorrow is the soccer championship, sunday is the basketball finals and mens marathon(winner is the toughest male athlete in these games)
are the closing ceremonies meaning we must prevent a ratings disaster by watching the ceremonies since theyre competing with WWE summerslam and most of all "Fear the Walking Dead".
today is the men's basketball semifinals, tomorrow is the soccer championship, sunday is the basketball finals and mens marathon(winner is the toughest male athlete in these games)
There has also been a delay in sending the athletes their funds so they can afford to travel to Brazil. This delay by the Paralympics Committee means that some athletes won't be able to travel to Brazil in time for the games.
(just heard this on NPR, didn't look for a news link)
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