Posted on 05/16/2015 11:47:31 PM PDT by bob_denard
RIO DE JANEIRO — The site chosen for the finals of next summer’s Olympic sailing races could not be more spectacular. Located at the mouth of Guanabara Bay, at the foot of Rio de Janeiro’s Sugarloaf Mountain, in full view of the crowds on Flamengo Beach, it is one of the most scenic places on the planet.
But there is one not-so-little problem.
“It is dirty,’’ said Brazilian Olympic windsurfer Ricardo Winicki. “It is one of the dirtiest places. And one of the most beautiful.’’
So notoriously grimy are the waters that Brazilian authorities are fighting to defend their selection of the site, which is polluted with raw sewage and garbage that floods into the 147-square-mile bay from open sewers and rain gullies — according to a 2014 report, 1.6 million homes in cities around the bay still lacked sewage collection.
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Rio is a really filthy city.
For that, I blame George Bush! /sarc
It’s the ‘Turd World’...
and once a marauding gang of monkeys attacked and went on a looting spree.
Third World problems.
You train for years for this Olympic moment and you get to sail in a latrine. Stop giving major sporting events to third world countries.
Why don’t the environwackos focus on places like this to do their dirty (no pun intended)work? Hassle their people and their government for a change.
Oh, that’s right. The ‘green’ movement isn’t really about saving the Earth. It’s about taking down America and middle class Americans so as to usher in the NWO.
Their natural solution to the problem in Rio would be to kill 98% of the people in the city.
To be fair, environmentalists did do some good in America. The Cuyahoga River is a good example of this. The problem is where some of their efforts have since gone.
Nevertheless, they have done some good here.
Never understood why I can’t be conservative AND worry about air and water pollution.
Make sure swimmers are up to date on their tetanus and take Typoid boosters.
So the Gold, Silver and Bronze medalists will take on a whole new meaning - you bested the latrine bay and yo achieved the impossible of winning your medal in record time. All the medal recipients have a odd color to their skin and a significant odor permeates throughout the entire awards venue.
Why have the Olympics there in in Brazil in a toilet!
You’re right - I should have kept things in perspective.
The environmental advocates did do quite a bit of good. I hear, for example, that in the 70’s Lake Erie was so bad someone put a match to it and it actually burned. Many horror stories from that period, which is likely why President Nixon had little choice but to authorized the creation of the EPA.
I think it’s absolutely consistent with being conservative to desire a clean environment. Years ago I heard Michael Savage say as much. No thinking person wants to drink contaminated water or breathe polluted air. Jobs and a clean environment need not be mutually exclusive.
And since we’re being fair, the EPA never would have been necessary if corporations and everyday citizens had been doing the right thing with waste all along.
I don’t think many would disagree with the statement that things have improved, cleaner water, air, etc.
What most of us object to is the tremendous cost of these advances. Not in dollars, but in freedoms.
That tremendous cost of freedom isn’t a one time thing, it goes on and on, losses of freedom compounding in the same way interest compounds.
Considering the costs, I, for one, would prefer the dirty water.
Hellva choice for the Olympics..
New events?
Turd tossing..
Butt&belly-sliding down an open exposed sewer trench..
Hope it rains.. could set new record times. ;-)
They are already talking about how most of the stadiums they built for the World Cup are falling into disrepair from being unused.
I think it’s incomprehensible to be okay with dirty water and air where you live. Maybe it hasn’t happened where you are, but that would be a poor excuse, anyway.
When ideology becomes more important than your health and the health of those close to you, something is wrong, no matter if it comes from the Right the Left or anywhere else.
No issue is more important than the health of the populace.
Even the people on the Left, who use that tool as a way to restrict our freedoms, don't believe that line.
You shouldn't be so foolish as to believe it either.
You should try to be smarter than a Leftist, because that isn't so hard to do.
But it won’t. It’s amazing how standardized the “next olympics will fail” stories have become. Quite dull really.
My ship did a South America cruise in 1977 and went to Salvador Brazil then we went to RIO. We had to take shots for our shots before we headed there.
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