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2016 Summer Olympics Watersports Venue Reportedly Highly Polluted Far Offshore

The world’s best athletes will reportedly have to worry about more than just their elite competition during the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

According to a report from Brad Brooks of the Associated Press, the AP’s latest testing demonstrated Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic waterways “are as rife with pathogens far offshore as they are nearer land, where raw sewage flows into them from fetid rivers and storm drains. That means there is no dilution factor in the bay or lagoon where events will take place and no less risk to the health of athletes.