Bear Down Wildcats

Brazilian officials have assured that the water will be safe for the Olympic athletes. But the government does not test for viruses.

Extreme water pollution is common in Brazil, where most sewage is not treated. Raw waste runs through open-air ditches to streams and rivers that feed the Olympic water sites.

Despite decades of official pledges to clean up the mess, the stench of raw sewage still greets travelers touching down at Rio's international airport. Prime beaches are deserted because the surf is thick with putrid sludge, and periodic die-offs leave the Olympic lake, Rodrigo de Freitas, littered with rotting fish.

"If I were going to be in the Olympics," said [a] California water expert, "I would probably go early and get exposed and build up my immunity system to these viruses before I had to compete, because I don't see how they're going to solve this sewage problem."

Chicat wrote:Just remember, in the official vote for that Olympics Chicago came in dead last because the IOC is more corrupt than FIFA.

If only we had more raw sewage in our water....

Chicat wrote:Just remember, in the official vote for that Olympics Chicago came in dead last because the IOC is more corrupt than FIFA.

If only we had more raw sewage in our water....

catgrad97 wrote:

Brazilian officials have assured that the water will be safe for the Olympic athletes. But the government does not test for viruses.

Extreme water pollution is common in Brazil, where most sewage is not treated. Raw waste runs through open-air ditches to streams and rivers that feed the Olympic water sites.

Despite decades of official pledges to clean up the mess, the stench of raw sewage still greets travelers touching down at Rio's international airport. Prime beaches are deserted because the surf is thick with putrid sludge, and periodic die-offs leave the Olympic lake, Rodrigo de Freitas, littered with rotting fish.

I'll just keep this facepalm to myself. That, ladies and gents, is how our country can turn into a third-world one: Politicians making impossible, ridiculous assurances in the face of shortcomings they are responsible for.

Think we can't become a Third World country? Brazil, a country even larger than India, whose water quality is notoriously awful, did, and now you know how.

legallykenny wrote:

Chicat wrote:Just remember, in the official vote for that Olympics Chicago came in dead last because the IOC is more corrupt than FIFA.

If only we had more raw sewage in our water....

Why would you want to host? Illinois and Chicago are already broke, they don't need 20 billion of extra expenses.

catgrad97 wrote:How convenient that LK didn't read my whole response. No wonder he's lost on a clear analogy. Oh well.

84Cat wrote:Awful, what does RS know about sports?

scumdevils86 wrote:the hell is that crap

Chicat wrote:Those belts are a little too "street" for my tastes. And so is the black dude...

azgreg wrote:

Chicat wrote:Those belts are a little too "street" for my tastes. And so is the black dude...

His name is Chad.

A beach goer Wednesday discovered human body parts that had washed up on the shore, right in front of the Olympic Beach Volleyball Arena on Rio's famed Copacabana beach.

A dismembered foot and another body part still unidentified was found, according to Andre Luiz, an officer of the Military Police. Police believe the victim was a woman or young adult.

Although the circumstances surrounding the person's death are unknown, it is another embarrassing blow to the host country -- already reeling from financial problems, a mishap-prone Olympic torch and an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Two days before the gruesome body parts discovery, the acting governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Francisco Dornelles, warned that the Games could be a "big failure" because the state is out of money.

Some of the Olympic Games costs are funded by the city of Rio de Janeiro, but the burden also falls on the Rio de Janeiro state government, and it is in bad shape.

The state declared an official emergency and requested a federal bailout earlier this month but it hasn't received the money. Dornelles warned of a breakdown in essential public services and said without the emergency funds, the police force could only cover its costs to the end of the week.

A guy pretending to be really drunk walked into a Rio de Janiero hotel where Chinese hurdler Shi Dongpeng and a photographer were checking in. The man vomited on Dongpeng, at which point the photographer chased the drunk out of the hotel while Dongpeng went to clean himself. But it was all a distraction, because the minute the photographer turned back around, all his equipment was gone.

When Dongpeng and the cameraman went to the police station, they had to sit in a queue for two hours while police dealt with all the other people who had been robbed that night. Earlier this week a New Zealand athlete was kidnapped by fake police and forced to withdraw money from an ATM. An Australian athlete [was] robbed at gunpoint near the sailing venue. Members of the Spanish sailing team were robbed earlier this year and a Brazilian athlete, shooter Anna Paula Cotta, was shot in the head during an attempted robbery in Rio last month.

The advice from various embassies and other authorities is for people visiting Rio to not wear expensive things or use a mobile phone in public.

A report commisioned by the Associated Press has revealed that water in Rio's Olympic and Paralympic venues holds viral levels 1.7m times what would be considered alarming in the United States and Europe just five days before the Games get underway

Alieberman wrote:I predict the Olympics won't exist in 20 years.

Alieberman wrote:I predict the Olympics won't exist in 20 years.

ASUHATER! wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olym ... 65866.html

Swimmers need to ingest only three teaspoons of water to be almost certain of contracting a virus

A report commisioned by the Associated Press has revealed that water in Rio's Olympic and Paralympic venues holds viral levels 1.7m times what would be considered alarming in the United States and Europe just five days before the Games get underway