Posted on 07/27/2016 8:41:39 AM PDT by simpson96
Olympic athletes competing in the waters off Rio’s shore dodge human feces, the invisible rotavirus, and dead bodies in pursuit of gold.
This game ranks not as an official Olympic sport but as a necessity for athletes competing on the open waters during the August event in Rio.
“We just have to keep our mouths closed when the water sprays up,” Afrodite Zegers, a sailor on the Olympic team of the Netherlands, reasons to the New York Times.
Rather than a 17-day infomercial for Brazilian tourism, the games risk alienating wealthy foreigners from traveling to the former Portuguese colony. The polluted waters, which pose more of a risk to tourists watching the Olympics than to athletes participating in it, join Zika, unchecked crime, terrorism, and other worries as threats to the success of the Rio games. Even the local cuisine may leave a bad taste in tourists’ mouths.
“When you open up the fish, their innards are black with oil and muck,” a fisherman tells the Times. “But we clean them with soap and eat them anyway.”
While swimmers and divers compete in chlorinated pools, other athletes compete on if not in the open waters. Sailing and canoeing both take place atop the sea with dangers levels of bacteria because of dumping and raw sewage pumped into the salt water.
“Foreign athletes will literally be swimming in human crap, and they risk getting sick from all those microorganisms,” Brazilian pediatrician Dr. Daniel Becker explained to the Old Gray Lady. “It’s sad, but also worrisome.”
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Another successful experiment in socialism on display . . .
Just tell them to think of the Girl From Inpanema while they are splashing around in the effluence.
They’ll swim faster then.
Zika virus, floating feces, high crime, massive corruption. What’s not to like about Brazil ‘16?
When will they just have the Winter Olympics in one place, the Summer Olympics in one place and put a chargeback system in place for countries? Every country, minus a couple lose money on hosting the olympics.
I can see the Olympics being split up among several countries with different countries hosting certain events.
They added a new sport this year which was not mentioned.
Log Rolling.
Amen to that. I went to Brazil in the 1990s and really liked it. I have always wanted to go back for vacation and was planning on it next year. After all this bad press, I probably won't. This surprises me. I consider myself fairly well read but these stories are a real eye-opener for me. I know that non-Western countries aren't the cleanest, safest places to visit but I've always accepted some level of risk in traveling. But these Brazil stories are a lot worse than I thought was the case.
So what?!? Americans have been swimming in it for nearly eight years under the Traitorobama kakistocracy.
The games usually have a few goofy ‘mascots’...I hope they look like a virus under a microscope.
A pal from my former employer vacationed with his wife and another couple in Brazil a dozen years ago. 15 minutes after he hit the beach, someone shoved a pistol in his ribs and took his wristwatch and wallet.
Could be worse. They could be forced to attend the Democrat convention.
Sorry, but there’s no way you can compete in an open water sport without getting a bunch of water in your mouth. When you exert yourself at that level you suck in a lot of air through your mouth, it’s unavoidable. Where you do it in the water you also suck in your share of water. There’s no way you can compete at that level and just breath through your nose.
Tokyo will be the next stop for the summer games. Likely things will improve from whatever goes wrong in Rio.
Gives new meaning to Turd World country
gaaawwwddd......
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