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As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the Summer Olympics in less than a year, concern remains that the site for rowing and canoeing competitions and venues for other aquatic events are polluted and unsafe to athletes.

IOC coordinating commission chairperson Nawal El Moutawakel was responding to independent reports that the city’s waters contained dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria. “They didn’t see a peak with that one so it seems to be a normal situation”.

A test event for 2016 Olympic equestrian began in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, following an outbreak of the highly contagious and deadly disease, glanders.

Was it Brazil’s caipirinha cocktail or did the head of the global Olympic Committee skip a major news conference in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday because of jet lag? Last June, displacement efforts turned violent as the last few holdouts in Vila Autódromo clashed with police.

But the meeting that was officially deemed the 128th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur also discussed one major issue that the Committee that has circulating for years, the Olympic Channel.