Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Steve Garagiola, a Detroit-based anchor, reported on Sean Ryan's upcoming participation in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Copacabana Beach. Garagiola says that Rio de Janeiro's extremely high levels of drug-resistant super bacteria in garbage and human waste are flowing untreated into Copacabana
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2016 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Florida, NBC reported [here] that the Associated Press found that viral levels in Rio de Janeiro were 30,000 times higher than is considered alarming in the U.S. and Europe. We find this reporting about the water safety situation at the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Of all the American reporters who have written about the bay and ocean waters of Rio de Janeiro, only Bonnie Ford has taken the time and effort to visit Rio herself and investigate the situation. Her article is published here on ESPN. We visited Copacabana Beach with Ford and the investigative crew from
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Wade of Associated Press wrote an article that was reported by ABC News...that continues to imply that the conditions in Rio de Janeiro for marathon swimmers and triathletes are dangerously dirty and unsafe for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Wade reports on the obviously polluted conditions of
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Guanabara Bay is not Copacabana Beach. We find it unfortunate that there are some people in the aquatics world who believe that media reports (e.g., see AP report here) imply or infer that the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim either will be cancelled or should be moved from Rio de Janeiro to other locations. We
