Brazil's Guanabara Bay Full Of Human Waste. 2016 Olympic Athletes Urged To Swim With Mouths Closed..
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With the opening ceremony for 2016 Summer Olympics set to begin next week in Rio de Janeiro, health experts are warning athletes about the filthy mess that is Guanabara Bay.
The New York Times reports that marathon swimmers, sailors and windsurfers have been told to swim with their mouths closed because the water is full of human waste that is being pumped into the Bay on a daily basis.
Add to that rats making a home in the filth and dead animal carcasses, creating a cesspool of bacteria. The smell is so bad it makes visitors feel like fainting or throwing up, according to USA Today.
When Rio was awarded the Olympics seven years ago, government officials promised to have the mess cleaned, but experts say the problem is actually worse now than it was then.
According to The Times, athletes face health risks from rotaviruses that can cause diarrhea and vomiting to drug-resistant 'superbacteria' that can be fatal to people with weakened immune systems.
"I see the same thing I saw nine years ago. The water is still very ? ," resident Luiz Goldfeld told USA Today. "At night the waters stinks, but nothing's changed. Still the same thing for nine years here. Unfortunately, they had the opportunity to change and they didn't do anything. The raw (sewage) comes from downtown and they don't have any treatment. It's pure ? ."
"(Officials) used the Olympic games to put money in their pockets," Goldfeld continued. "They don't think (about) the Olympic legacy. We had the great opportunity to do things for the city, but wasted this opportunity. It smells like ? because it's full of ? . I don’t believe most of what we hear from the politicians, but I expected something would be done with the Olympics coming.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QopfE5950CE Comments
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Lol at swim with your mouth closed, ? I ain't trying to backstroke in ? waters
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How about not swim at all?
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they need to cancel this ?
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They need to holla at that ? Nino Brown, he will have some sage advice for the Olympic comittee
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watch for the hook mane smh.....? gettin scary out here
they gone send all them folks back over here with some antibiotic resistant strain of pink eye that turns to rabies in 8 days smh
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Disgraceful.
Just disgraceful. -
What's the over under they cancel the Olympics?
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All the athletes going to this are ?
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I know athletes train their entire lives for the Olympics, but at what point do you hafta say "? it. My life is worth more than a medal to me."?
There is no way these games should be happening. They just need to switch it up and have the winter and summer games in 2018. -
Why haven't the swimmers protested against this ? ? They're the ones having to wade through this ? .
NO gold medal is worth some super form of SARSanoma-X-pox. -
Those athletes going to go swimming in that hazardous disgusting water and come out looking like those sewer mutants in Futurama.
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2016 has been a messed up year
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2016 has been a messed up year
yea let one of those swimmers die....? gonna be crazy -
A bunch of credulous ? in here...what didn't they say about Africa hosting a World Cup? Yet it was one of the most successful to date. Same thing was said about Brazil hosting the World Cup, yet it IS the most successful to date...thread starter is an idiot and fear monger
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A bunch of credulous ? in here...what didn't they say about Africa hosting a World Cup? Yet it was one of the most successful to date. Same thing was said about Brazil hosting the World Cup, yet it IS the most successful to date...thread starter is an idiot and fear monger
Vuvuzela ruined the SA World Cup. What about the Zika? -
not_osirus_jenkins wrote: »What's the over under they cancel the Olympics?
Those television networks across the world who spent billions dollars in rights fees won't let that happen.. Also you can't forget all the sponsor money from those evil multinational corporations that was dished out.. So the show is still going to go on no matter what.. And if people get sick or die.. Well in minds of those TV networks and corporations.. People get sick and die every day B... -
Nah....
? is really ? up.....
The games will probably go off well....
They will clear off a section for the watersports....
However, this ? is fowl.....
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/28/magazine/rio-sarapu-guanabara-bay-pollution.html?_r=0
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So you ? cool with eating ass but scared to swim in ? ? Y'all some hypocrites lol
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A bunch of credulous ? in here...what didn't they say about Africa hosting a World Cup? Yet it was one of the most successful to date. Same thing was said about Brazil hosting the World Cup, yet it IS the most successful to date...thread starter is an idiot and fear monger
Vuvuzela ruined the SA World Cup. What about the Zika?
An asinine assertion if i ever read one. Zika? What do you know about it? -
ghostdog56 wrote: »So you ? cool with eating ass but scared to swim in ? ? Y'all some hypocrites lol
i hate ya'll lmaoo -
A bunch of credulous ? in here...what didn't they say about Africa hosting a World Cup? Yet it was one of the most successful to date. Same thing was said about Brazil hosting the World Cup, yet it IS the most successful to date...thread starter is an idiot and fear monger
Vuvuzela ruined the SA World Cup. What about the Zika?
An asinine assertion if i ever read one. Zika? What do you know about it?
Enough to make me not want to go to Brasil.
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stringer bell wrote: »With the opening ceremony for 2016 Summer Olympics set to begin next week in Rio de Janeiro, health experts are warning athletes about the filthy mess that is Guanabara Bay.
The New York Times reports that marathon swimmers, sailors and windsurfers have been told to swim with their mouths closed because the water is full of human waste that is being pumped into the Bay on a daily basis.
Add to that rats making a home in the filth and dead animal carcasses, creating a cesspool of bacteria. The smell is so bad it makes visitors feel like fainting or throwing up, according to USA Today.
When Rio was awarded the Olympics seven years ago, government officials promised to have the mess cleaned, but experts say the problem is actually worse now than it was then.
According to The Times, athletes face health risks from rotaviruses that can cause diarrhea and vomiting to drug-resistant 'superbacteria' that can be fatal to people with weakened immune systems.
"I see the same thing I saw nine years ago. The water is still very ? ," resident Luiz Goldfeld told USA Today. "At night the waters stinks, but nothing's changed. Still the same thing for nine years here. Unfortunately, they had the opportunity to change and they didn't do anything. The raw (sewage) comes from downtown and they don't have any treatment. It's pure ? ."
"(Officials) used the Olympic games to put money in their pockets," Goldfeld continued. "They don't think (about) the Olympic legacy. We had the great opportunity to do things for the city, but wasted this opportunity. It smells like ? because it's full of ? . I don’t believe most of what we hear from the politicians, but I expected something would be done with the Olympics coming.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QopfE5950CE
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oh well...they choosing to go there so it's whatever to me....i think they will be fine tho
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