Rio Olympic Athletes To Swim And Perform In Water Filled With Human Dead Bodies
Just few days are left in the starting of the biggest sporting event in the world the Olympics but it looks like Rio is really not ready to host the mother of all sporting events. As per the reports Guanabara Bay is found to be very contaminated with all sorts of bad things and this is the place where most of the water games will be played.
Competitors taking part in some of the aquatic events at the Rio Olympics next month have been warned not to open their mouths to avoid catching serious illnesses from the polluted water.
Health experts warned Olympic marathon swimmers, sailors and windsurfers competing in Rio’s Guanabara Bay – where a body was found floating in the lead up to the Games – to be ultra careful as the waters are much more contaminated than was previously thought, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Environmentalists and scientists have voiced their concerns about Guanabara Bay and Copacabana Beach saying that they are much more contaminated than previously thought.
Many scientist and doctors have warned the players and the organizers that the water is do contaminated and filled with harmful bacteria’s and organisms which is enough to make a healthy man sick and unfortunately the Olympic champions and marathon players are forced to practice in this water only.
Spanish women’s sailing team coach Nigel Cochrane described it as ‘disgusting’ and that they were ‘very concerned’ about it and on the other hand Australia’s sailors were still running into rubbish and were forced to stop their boats while training on Rio’s Olympic courses however.
‘Two or three times a day we would be caught up with rubbish on our foil,’ ‘We need to stop, slow the boat down completely and raise our foils.’It’s getting better, hopefully we can get it down to one or two a week.’ Told the 470 gold medallist Mat Belcher from Rio.
However, they complained that the facilities were not up to scratch with delegates from the Australian, Belorussian and Argentinian teams all expressing concern over the rooms for their competitors.
So we hope that things get better before the game start and we hope to see some of the best from the players.
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