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And the Olympic committee isn't going to do anything about it for the Rio Olympics, even though participants in the Test got seriously ill at rates much higher than seen in other venues.
From the Guardian:
From the Guardian:
“Samples from the sailing courses and inside the lagoon prove that the viruses are present even away from the shore, away from the sources of pollution, and that they maintain extremely high viral loads,” he said.
Athletes in Rio test events have tried many tricks and treatments to avoid falling ill, including bleaching rowing oars, hosing off their bodies the second they finish competing, and preemptively taking antibiotics which have no effect on viruses.
Despite those efforts, athletes at a competition in August still fell ill. The World Rowing Federation reported that 6.7% of 567 rowers got sick at a junior championships event in Rio.
The International Sailing Federation said just over 7% of sailors competing at a mid-August Olympic warm-up event in Guanabara Bay fell ill but the federation has not conducted a full count of how many athletes got sick in the two weeks following the competition, the rough incubation period for many of the pathogens in the water.
