Summer Olympic swimmers will race in sewage

Fusion - An investigation by the Associated Press has concluded that the waters of Rio de Janeiro, where the Summer Olympics will be held next year, are chock-full of sewage, and that competing athletes should not be surprised if they get “violently ill” after swimming and boating events.

Brazilian officials have conceded that they won’t fulfill promises made when the country won Olympic bid in 2009. Officials had said they would cut pollution into the notoriously dirty Guanabara Bay by 80 percent ahead of the games, but “it’s not going to happen,” said Rio’s environment secretary in January.