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Through Associated Press’ investigation, an analysis of water quality revealed hazardously elevated levels of bacteria and viruses due to human waste at the Olympic and Paralympic venues.

Ivan Bulaja who coaches Austria’s 49-er class sailing team has already seen his sailors fall ill during training, saying entering the waters was “a huge risk for the athletes”. “We are doing everything we can and following all the experts’...

The other Olympic water venues are under the control of the Rio state environmental agency. In Rio, much of the waste runs through open-air ditches to fetid streams and rivers that feed the Olympic water sites and blight the city’s picture postcard beaches. The Brazilian...