Shocking pictures reveal the full horror of Rio's filthy conditions as athletes are warned [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | August 1, 2016 | Gareth Davies

[C19fan]

Shocking new pictures of the filthy waters in Rio have revealed yet more concerns for Olympic athletes in Brazil who have been told not to put their heads under water. Ganabara Bay will host the triathlon, sailing and some swimming events at the Games and last week a floating corpse and a severed arm were found floating in the water. A study has shown viral levels in the bay is up to 1.7 million times what would be considered worrisome in the United States or Europe.

[Crash Fistfight]

Well the Olympics have been crap for years so oh well.

[Karliner]

Okay I’m an old distance ocean swimmer. I don’t know how you can keep your head above water swimming or not get some water in your mouth. That is atrocious.

[PrivateIdaho]

Having done many triathlons, I can tell you it is impossible to complete the swim without swallowing some water.

Maybe if you were swimming by yourself, but with dozens of arms and legs thrashing the water and dealing out body blows... no way.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Imagine training your entire life for the olympics only to be given your big shot in a literal cesspool.

[Gamecock]

Like the Ganges in India? Not going to post the pic, but this is horrible!

[StormEye]

But it's only the United States that is the evil polluter.
Third World countries/peoples are at one with
Nature and Mother Earth.
It's the fault of those wicked oil companies too.
Oil companies and the United States are the world's main polluters.
Yeah, that's it.

[SpinnerWebb]

A case of the squirts
Is the least of their concern
E Coli or worse

[central_va]

I stayed in a 4 star hotel on Copacabana Beach. The guy at the desk told me to keep my mouth shut tight in the shower! Also to use bottled water to brush my teeth with.

[BenLurkin]

You’d think that nature and disease would take their course. And annihilate the populations which create these environments in which they live.

[Steely Tom]

You mean there's a nation that's more horribly polluted than the terrible United States, that's been turned into a cesspool from coast to coast by filthy Republicans who are only interested in personal profit?

I wonder if any of the MSM will look into the "income inequality" issues of Brazil?

[Gamecock]

I have traveled throughout Africa and parts of Asia.

The better hotels put water bottles in the bathrooms just for that purpose.

[dainbramaged]

Nice. At least they have the tires there to prevent scratching the gel coat on your ski boat.

[RegulatorCountry]

I have a hard time envisioning water beneath all that. Looks like you could walk across it.

[EnglishOnly]

I hope the US team has the brains to flip off
Brazil with these absolutely deplorable conditions of
filth and disease. Team USA ....get back on the Airplane, and return to civilization here in the USA. To blazes with the Brazilian Swine and Filth!!

Amen.

[ColdOne]

This is how hillary wants America to be. Her and all her globalist ilk. This is what we will look like years after she steals WH.

[txrefugee]

“Why did they pick that city again???”
Because the senile members of the IOC take bribes. Rio should lose millions because sane people should not go, but the ignoramuses at NBC will be paying millions for the TV rights. Since many of our intelligent athletes are not going to compete, NBC also will lose money as ratings suffer.

[lacrew]

Couldn’t you just stand upright and sprint across the trash in the water?

[T-Bone Texan]

A haiku

What kind of people
Just poop in their water and
Ignore dead bodies?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

What a $hit hole.

I think tomorrow morning after my constitutional, I’ll throw some ants in the toilet, take some video and post them aerial’s of the Olympics.

I can say the corn is water buoys.