Pretty sure the race is at Copacabana beach, which is one of the areas noted. The Olympic test this weekend, and the new IM70.3 Rio are also there. I'd been thinking about doing that race next year... maybe... now, not so much. My FTP-while-puking is poor.

From that link:
Copacabana Beach, where the swim portion of the triathlons will take place, was one of the least-polluted areas tested but still contained a concentration of viruses “roughly equivalent to that seen in raw sewage.”

Cheers!

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Munq

Well that puts a different spin on having a shitty swim.

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My mind blew reading that sentence when I realized the implication that there is something MORE polluted than raw sewage. I've always thought that was the gold (brown?) standard. In fairness to sewage everywhere though, I didn't need turds floating past me this morning to have a shitty swim.

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Munq

Is anyone surprised? This has been a known issue for years. The IOC will eventually feign outrage but they chose lining their own pockets over the safety of the athletes when they picked Brazil to host the games. At this point it's tough to tell whether FIFA or the IOC is more corrupt.

The IOC is running out of quality venues to host. https://www.washingtonpost.com/...he-olympics-anymore/

I'm not sure that the Olympics will survive this century in their current form.

So the athletes this weekend are swimming in sewage with no cash payouts except for sponsors. Talk about getting screwed

Here is mention of Triathlon...

http://triathlon.competitor.com/...venues-in-rio_120030

There is no way that USAT can allow their athletes to swim in this "shit" for olympic qualifying. Just what they need to get sick and set back training several weeks. This is completely ridiculous.

this.

olympics are a burden to countries in terms of financial debt and up-keep after the games have gone. I think it'd be better if IOC settled on 5-7 locations worldwide and just rotated locations throughout the years.. would then be sustainable in my opinion. However, with its current set up, its only a burden at this point.

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I agree with this. Surely, with this information, USAT can make a judgement call here and pull our athletes from this event. If I were an athlete competing I would sure as hell be begging them to.

wait till we hear what percentage go down with GI issues - it will probably be the first olympic record

in fairness to china, my understanding was that they did clean the waters up as well as the air (relatively speaking from how bad it was originally) by enforcing a national policy, something it appears is beyond the brazilians

Odd being a socialist country.

I bet a lot of riders will change their normal nutrition to coke. A former ITU athlete told me when they swim in dirty places they normally drink a coke right after the race since it kills almost everything in your stomach.

Just move the water events to Quatar.

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I don't agree with Brett Sutton all of the time, but he was spot on with this one: http://trisutto.com/...-olympic-test-event/

BTW, it was the same at London... blue algae. Almost all urban triathlon are at risk.

Some NFs are well prepared to face this.

Yep this is a known issue. Chinese waters were polluted too for 2008 Olympics. But they hired thousands of boats to go out there and clean it up. Last I heard in Brazil they have a dozen or two dozen boats trying to clean up the water that that ain't enough.

Mmmhh.. in the article it says these viral loads are not safe in the US, but I really have a hard time finding viral loads made public (West Coast/California).

http://www.healthebay.org/sites/default/files/pdf/beachreportcard/1_BRC_2015_Beach_Report_Card_%28full%29.pdf

Page 51 actually says, they do NOT test for human-pathogenic viruses in California.

I guess we are not squeaky clean either....

This is why you shouldn't get medical advice from athletes. That is just dumb.

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Ian

Seems to work for me, used to get GI issues after races (almost all swims down here are nasty) but after the coke I don't have any issues. May just be by chance but it stopped when I started drinking coke

Build-in excuse for failed drug test: "I must have drunk something whilst swimming, it tasted strange" ;)

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Coke cures everything! Read Macca's book and he finally solved his cramping problems at Kona when he quit listening to the experts and started listening to his fellow competitors - who told him to drink Coke. Really, there are times when practical experience trumps medical science which is still evolving.

Yep. Stomach acid Ph 1.5 to 3.5. (We are all different.) And it's in there all the time.

Coke Ph is 2.8.

Acidity is about the only thing in Coke that can kill. The rest is food for bacteria.

Coke syrup was routinely given out to settle upset stomachs. No different than giving out some alka seltzer (and yes, I know they work differently). Its not an antibiotic or anything. If they killed your gut bacteria, most of America would be in deep shit (literally).

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Ian

Where's quatar and why?