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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...

Beyond the major locations of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Salvador, Brazil boasts a number of major tourist attractions, ranging from its famous beaches to the natural beauties of the Pantanal wetlands and the Iguazu Falls, as well as the vast Amazon rainforest.

But the stench of raw sewage still greets travelers arriving at Rio’s global airport. “Those kinds of things would be shut down immediately if found here [in the U.S.]”.