RIO DE JANEIRO — The world governing body for sailing is expected to announce this week that it is tentatively sticking to plans to hold races in next year’s Summer Olympics inside the highly polluted Guanabara Bay, yet will keep the option open to moving the courses.
Although reports of Rio de Janeiro’s polluted waters are intensifying pressure on sports officials to reconsider, the provisional Olympic sailing competition schedule has three racecourses inside the bay, the same ones that were used in test events here in August, said the international sailing federation, known as ISAF.
A fourth course inside the bay has been added as a backup.