Windsurfer Taken Ill After Olympic Test Event

According to the Associated Press, Cho was “50-60%” after a 24-hour hospital stay and was training again. He said he doesn’t know “the exact reason why I got so sick”.

The head of Rio de Janeiro’s water utility has acknowledged “problems” with the city’s sewage-filled Guanabara Bay still insisted the Olympic city will eventually reach its goal of collecting & treating all of the waste at present dumped in to the waterway. Officials acknowledge the reporting is incomplete with many teams and some of the 300 athletes skittish about disclosing illnesses.

“Especially in the bay, it’s bad”, he said, adding that the water was “smelly”. “Obviously, I’m not insane enough to say in that there aren’t problems in the Guanabara Bay“, he stated.

The IOC has declined to move to cleaner venues for next year’s first Olympics in South America, which open August. 5, 2016.

“This week all they care about is racing.” Page said.

Ok posted photos on his Facebook page of Cho on a stretcher being lifted into an ambulance.

“It seems he (Cho) got infected from virus somewhere in the racing site which is supposed to be safe and clean as an Olympic venue, ” wrote Ok, a three-time Olympic wind surfer.

Other sources, such as Dr. Nebojsa Nikolic, a top medical at the global Sailing Federation, however point to the difficulty of finding the cause of a viral infection.

Concerns that water pollution will endanger athletes at the Olympic Games in Rio next summer have escalated to include protests and claims from athletes that they have already fallen ill.

The incident comes only weeks after AP published a long-running independent study into Rio’s water quality which showed high levels of viruses and bacteria, as well as debris and raw sewage at numerous Olympic venues. Was it someone sneezing near him?

Fifteen American rowers were taken ill earlier this month after taking part in the World Junior Rowing Championships on Lagoa Rodrigo Freitas, which also served as a Rio 2016 test event.

She told the BBC: “It’s important that we can leave a legacy for our children and for Brazilian people”.