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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."
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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."
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Paralympic legend Grey-Thompson and the chief executive of the British Paralympic Association, Tim Hollingsworth, also called for every option to be explored – including financial assistance from the International Olympic Committee – to avoid next month's event heralding a major step backwards for the movement.
Friday saw the International Paralympic Committee announce a major downsizing of the Rio Games after the organising committee ran out of money, forcing the closure of venues and putting the participation of several countries in jeopardy.
A promised bailout of £60 million will not be enough to plug the shortfall in the cost of staging an event which begins in less than three weeks.
Grey-Thompson, an 11-time Paralympic champion who will be in Rio working for the BBC, told the Sunday Telegraph: "At some point, there has to be an investigation into how it got to this stage.
"It's pretty disappointing three weeks out that this is what the athletes are finding out."
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I was never a fan of just looking at the totals. I think medals per capita is a fairer way to compare all countries, no matter how small or big. And Grenada wins.
I was never a fan of just looking at the totals. So I made a little chart showing weighted scores (Gold gets .5, Silver gets .33, and Bronze gets .17) and the "achievement rate" is what I use to declare the real winner of the Olympics.
I only calculated: the top 4 totals, the host country, and the lowest country with a medal. And some other random countries.
Lower numbers = bad.
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