[Cowboy Bob]

Why not? It should be the test of a true champion!

[sten]

enjoy the diversity and socialism of Bazil !

[nascarnation]

Zika virus included at no additional charge...

[txrefugee]

Sewage and the Zika virus....why would anyone go to Brazil???

[Future Snake Eater]

They get sick from the polluted Brazilian water? Who knew Olympic athletes were so racist? They need to check their privilege.

[headstamp 2]

As long as right palms were greased at the IAC.

[armydawg505]

Wait, this country has been a socialist utopia under the current President. How could all these problems be??? NY Times, are you telling us the system doesn’t work?

[lee martell]

Sounds like good advice to me.
However, if I was coaching an Olympic level swimmer, there is no way I’d bring him to the dark, gooey waters of Brazil and risk his health. Oh, and then there’s that pesky Zika thing.

[gigster]

The title of the article wins the DUH! Award of the Day.

[grobdriver]

Something the Olympic committee should have considered before choosing a city where they discharge raw sewage into the ocean.

[keving]

FDR May have been caused in sewage water. I can only question of Brazil.h

[tinyowl]

"Olympians Shouldn’t Swim Through Sewage"

Nor should your readers.

[Charles Martel]

...sick with diarrhea, vomiting and flulike symptoms after training and competing around Rio, and they experience only “incidental contact” with the water. Marathon swimmers and triathletes will ingest this water — and the consequences could be deadly.

Sounds just like the tap water in that part of the world. Besides, a brisk case of the trots should help those marathon swimmers squirt through the bay like torpedoes!

[Caipirabob]

It is Rio, and everyone knows if you are swimming off Copacabana, chances are you are swimming in poop from the favelas. Everyone in Rio knows this much. I think attendance for swimming events may be up this year because of this fact alone. Pooplympics 2016!!! Boas fiestas, y’all!

[ghosthost]

there is no way in hell I’d get 100 miles from this country, let alone swim in its sewer water

[CrazyIvan]

Thank goodness my cousin is throwing the discus.

[NormsRevenge]

coming in turd place has new meaning.. and a new medal..

[trisham]

I wouldn’t do it. The Olympics is becoming a joke.

[stocksthatgoup]

Been swimming through sewage since January 2009

[GladesGuru]

“If you visit Rio city,
You will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware:
Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!”

My apologies to Tom Lehrer.

Bottom line, such risks are why the term “Turd World” was coined.