The Rio Olympics are kicking off on August 5th, but Rio de Janeiro’s waterways show alarming levels of pollution that could be risky for athletes and tourists alike.
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National Basketball Association superstars living it up on a private boat with a full arsenal social media at their disposal – what could possibly go wrong?
Google will link all of these official broadcasters’ highlights directly into Google Search and YouTube Watch Cards for the Rio Games. In its bid, Brazil promised to clean up at least 80 percent of the sewage that was flowing into the city’s notoriously dirty water.
In fact, some of the city’s most dilapidated quarters have been turned into green spaces, and public art is spray painted on walls. The Games are motivating more searches globally than the last World Cup and past two UEFA European Championships.
“You could make the case Zika is a bigger story in Florida than in Rio, where it is winter, and cooler and drier”, he said.
The global health body had said that the call would “not significantly alter” the spread of the virus, which is linked to serious birth defects.
However, the weather is starting to cool here, even as it warms up in the United States.
Reuters conducted its tests at several sites, like the Olympic Village, where athletes will live during the games, and Copacabana, where beach volleyball events will be held.
“Honestly, if my wife wasn’t pregnant right now, I would be going to Rio”.
Of course we had some huge losses, some players that have been around the game for quite some time, and they are irreplaceable, really, veteran goalkeeper Hope Solo said. Only 20 percent of those infected have any signs of the disease. “That’s just what it comes down to”. “I’m not accusing anybody, but there’s a lot of non-accredited – if you like – workers, cleaners, housecleaners, and maintenance workers walking around”.
“We as a team acknowledge the pressure”, Solo said.
The tribunal has been holding special hearings in Rio to clear the appeals before the Olympics begin.
Just last month, Brazilian scientists detected the superbug CRE in these waters.
Kim Ok-cheol, 21, was struck by the rear view mirror of a auto when he was training within the Tijuca national park in Rio and suffered scratches when he fell to the ground but did not need to be taken for treatment in hospital, police said.
Brazil is set to reap a 25 per cent stock market boost from hosting this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, if the experience of past hosts is anything to go by. In 1999, the team won the World Cup and headed to the 2000 Olympics as a top team in the world. “But we have something different and I don’t think anybody has seen the USA team as we are right now”.
And doctors on the ground have another concern.
Political and economic crises have burdened local hospitals.
But when NBC had its Olympics panel at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, executive producer Jim Bell, host Bob Costas, and correspondent Mary Carillo seemed to prefer to keep the focus elsewhere, and even the network’s Rio coverage as a respite from America’s problems.
Costas expanded on that answer, saying that the Rio Games would happen without NBC’s involvement.
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The city of Rio de Janeiro is expected to increase its deployed police force from 10,400 to almost 14,000 by suspending vacations and special leave during the Olympic Games, a surge of more than 30 percent.
