A body floats in the waters of Guanabara bay, a sailing venue for the 2016 Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, June 27, 2016. Recent tests revealed a veritable petri dish of pathogens in the Rio's waters, from rotaviruses that can cause diarrhea and vomiting to drug-resistant "super bacteria." (Lalo de Almeida/The New York Times) Credit: New York Times / Redux / eyevine For further information please contact eyevine tel: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 e-mail: info@eyevine.com www.eyevine.com

From The Sun:

Athletes have been robbed at gunpoint and even allegedly kidnapped by gangs of rogue cops on the streets of Rio.

Meanwhile the Olympians’ “Disneyland for Athletes” accommodation has been rendered virtually uninhabitable by a putrid open sewer gushing through the village.

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Swimmers and sailors have been warned not to open their mouths when competing in case they pick up infections from waters poisoned by human excrement.

Team GB has been forced to employ its own Rio plumber after discovering blocked toilets and leaking sewage pipes at their digs.

Roads are clogged with traffic while a new Metro line is due to be completed just four days before the £10billion Games begin, allowing no time for vital testing.

Visitor numbers are set to be hugely down on previous Games with more than a million tickets still unsold.

Also, the security force says morale is at an all-time low from lack of pay and no beds at their barracks.

From Gizmodo:

Imagine training every day of your life for one big moment, only to find that the moment will be marred by wading through shit-infested water. That’s exactly what members of the US Olympic rowing team will feel when they head into the polluted waters of Rio de Janeiro at the 2016 Olympics. The team will be competing in water that literally has fresh poop dumped into it every single day.

To fight the abhorrent pollution, the US Olympic rowing team was fitted with high-tech training unibody suits knitted with an antimicrobial finish. The suits were supposed to protect against the flesh-eating disease and other pathogens found in the water that the team would be racing in. But now experts aren’t so sure that the suits will help prevent the spread of disease.

A new Wired report suggests that the antimicrobial racing suit probably won’t be enough to protect the athletes from water pollution in Rio de Janeiro. The issue is that the suits have a layer of chemical-based antimicrobial finish to kill or inhibit some microorganisms. But some health experts aren’t sure the biocides can kill microbes fast enough. They also realize athletes will be immersing themselves in water with an insane amount of pathogens, viruses, bacteria, and other waterborne disease.