Rio

When Rio captured the winning bid for next year's Olympics 5 years ago, one of the requirements that the International Olympic Committee made of them is that they HAD to clean up the area's municipal water/sewage treatment problem.

With just a few months to go, they haven't done a thing.

How big a deal is this? I encourage you to find a good article on the subject and find out for yourself, but basically the way Rio takes care of all their waste is to flush it down the drain and let it flow freely to rivers which carry it to their bays. As some reporters are saying, several Olympic events will be held in sewage water.

Germany's Erik Heil, while doing warm-up sailing runs in the very same bays he's going to compete in for next summers event, contacted MRSA, a flesh-eating bacteria that nearly killed him. Tests show that nearly ALL the water to be used for these events is going to have bacteria and viruses in them 10, 000 to several million times more than America or European countries allow in their recreational water.

The worst part? Olympic officials are ignoring the problem while merely redefining their parameters. Much like FIFA (the governing body of world soccer) whose corruption is just now being sorted out now, Olympic officials are starting to be called out on this. Corruption is afoot once more.

This water is dangerous and the health and lives of athletes will be at stake.

Rio broke their promise that they'd address this. I say take the Olympics away from them. They got the rights based on promises they did not and will not keep. We'll live without one more Olympic Games. And officials will be forced to be less corrupt in the future.

I feel sorry for the athletes that might miss this. We'll feel a lot worse if some of them die because of the dangerous mess.