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July 27, 2016 at
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CBS Interactive
Athletes at Rio Olympics 'will literally be swimming in human crap'
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."
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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G s b t
1 usa 9 8 9 26
2 China 8 3 6 17
3 Japan 3 1 10 14
4 Russia 3 6 3 12
5 Australia 4 0 5 9
The people who run the Olympics treat it as their own private cash machine. Brazil and Socci should never have been awarded the Olympics games as they were both terrible venues for the athletes. But money changed hands behind the scene and they got the Olympics anyway.
That's bad enough but then there is the ongoing doping debacle, where they banned some Russian and Chinese athletes, then turned around and un-banned some of them after
bribes"pressure from Putin", including at least one swimmer who had been caught doping multiple times. Yet for the Paralympics they banned the entire Russian team.http://www.telegraph.c
The people who run the Olympics treat it as their own private cash machine. Brazil and Socci should never have been awarded the Olympics games as they were both terrible venues for the athletes. But money changed hands behind the scene and they got the Olympics anyway.
That's bad enough but then there is the ongoing doping debacle, where they banned some Russian and Chinese athletes, then turned around and un-banned some of them after
bribes"pressure from Putin", including at least one swimmer who had been caught doping multiple times. Yet for the Paralympics they banned the entire Russian team.http://www.telegraph.c
Or Kerri Walsh Jennings who is 37 years old and undefeated in Olympic Beach Volleyball - playing with a new partner and still winning. She's 23 - 0 and in that time lost one set.
Michael Phelps is 31 and won his twentieth gold medal. 20! Against the douche from South Africa who thought it was a good idea to taunt him and then finished 4th.
Anywho, there's a lot of positive too and at some point it's like, yeah, we get it, it shouldn't have been there, but it is so move on. Or ignore it, I guess.
Maybe start complaining for next Olympics? There's no way Qatar won the bid without tons of cash in someones pocket - it averages like 104 in the shade there.
That is impressive
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Or Kerri Walsh Jennings who is 37 years old and undefeated in Olympic Beach Volleyball - playing with a new partner and still winning. She's 23 - 0 and in that time lost one set.
Michael Phelps is 31 and won his twentieth gold medal. 20! Against the douche from South Africa who thought it was a good idea to taunt him and then finished 4th.
Anywho, there's a lot of positive too and at some point it's like, yeah, we get it, it shouldn't have been there, but it is so move on. Or ignore it, I guess.
Maybe start complaining for next Olympics? There's no way Qatar won the bid without tons of cash in someones pocket - it averages like 104 in the shade there.
It's great that some athletes have the physical abilities and training that can overcome someone who is doping but the playing field for athletes isn't level and most don't get to train in high tech facilities and get financial support while training. What about the swimmer from Ireland who was one place out in the time trials to one of the Russian swimmers who had been caught doping in the past? She never got to the finals due to the officials caving into Putin's pressure.
There are huge rewards for athletes who win a gold, silver or bronze medal but very little support for athletes who don't make it to the podium because many countries don't have the funds to support a large group of athletes. So those athletes are very dependent on corporate sponsors, so they can continue training.
I couldn't find the link but caught the tail end story of an athlete being interviewed on NPR the other day, he explained that he came extremely close to winning the bronze, within 1cm I think and six years later the athlete who barely beat him was disqualified for doping, the Olympics Committee sent him the bronze medal with no fanfare or announcement, so the mayor and the people of his small home town held a party for him. He said how that loss had ended his career as he didn't get the $90k? (think he was Canadian, not sure) for the bronze and couldn't get sponsorship and he had a family to support. By the time he got the medal 6 years later, it was too late for him to return to the sport.
So while there are some great stories at the Olympics, there are many more people who will never get the recognition they deserve because the people who run the Olympics are more interested in making money and smoothing over the scandals, than in doing right by ALL of the athletes.
Total only
1 usa 50
2 China 37
3 Japan 24
4 uk 22
5 russIA 22
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In the latest security incident to hit the Rio de Janeiro Games, Lochte told NBC that one of the robbers put a gun to his forehead before taking his wallet. No one was injured.
http://www.espn.com/olympics/swim...robbed-rio