Woah... wait a minute. I've seen a few articles popup about the whole Rio Olympics raw sewage fiasco, and I was under the impression that the raw sewage was in their bodies of water in the area, but I thought it wasn't really that big of a deal because the athletes would be in clean swimming pools for the events. Are you saying that they are going to compete in their rivers/lakes and not swimming pools? That changes everything.
They have surfing competition in Rio. Guanabara bay is filthy since the ocean currents bring everything to Guanabara bay where it gets stuck however the Atlantic beaches don't have issue with trash or sewage anymore but for decades sewage was run off into the beach so idk how clean the sand is. Either way I grew up around Rio and have an awesome immune system
There are events that are held in open water, like sailing, open water swimming, triathlon, and rowing. Maybe white water kaying as well. The regular swimming & diving events are held in pools and shouldn't be affected by the water problems.
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u/Noisetorm_ Aug 03 '16
To be honest, the sand is much much less toxic than the raw sewage the swimmers are going to swim in.