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I hope you were joking.
It's no secret that the water at some of the 2016 Olympic venues in Rio de Janeiro has some problems.
NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro got a whiff of one venue in April. But The Associated Press has just put some science into it by commissioning tests over a five-month period.
What the wire service found is pretty gross. In short, the water is "rife with human sewage," teeming with high levels of viruses and bacteria. Not a single Olympic venue, the AP testing found, is fit for swimming or boating.
NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro got a whiff of one venue in April. But The Associated Press has just put some science into it by commissioning tests over a five-month period.
What the wire service found is pretty gross. In short, the water is "rife with human sewage," teeming with high levels of viruses and bacteria. Not a single Olympic venue, the AP testing found, is fit for swimming or boating.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/30/427693471/testing-by-ap-finds-water-at-2016-olympic-sites-rife-with-human-sewage