Rio's Olympic Waters 'Widely Contaminated'

New test results show that waters where athletes will compete in next year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics are more widely contaminated than previously known, threatening the health of athletes competing in the games. A study of Rio's waterways commissioned by The Associated Press shows high levels of virus contamination and, in some cases, bacterial counts both on shorelines, where raw sewage runs into open water near the city's famed beaches on the Atlantic coast, as well as in...

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