No! Brazilian Official Confirms Goals For Olympic Sailing Venues Impossible (Raw Sewage, Garbage)

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro will not make good on its Olympic pledge of slashing the flow of raw sewage and garbage into the Guanabara Bay, where the 2016 games' sailing and wind surfing competitions are to be held, the state's top environmental official acknowledged Friday.

Brazilian official's promise to cut the flow of pollutants into the bay by 80 percent was a key part of the city's Olympic bid document and widely held up as among the most enduring legacies of the games. But with just 1 1/2 years to go before the showcase event, it has become increasingly clear that the target wouldn't be met.

Rio's new state Environment Secretary, Andre Correa, told reporters he couldn't provide an estimate of how much officials would actually succeed in cutting the flow of pollutants into the bay. "Removing 80 percent of the pollutants? It's not going to happen, it's not going to happen," said Correa, who took office earlier this month. Still, he insisted that regardless of how far the cleanup progresses, the Olympic events won't be compromised. "From the point of view of the Olympics, the point of view of water quality, what I've said about the 80 percent does not at all affect the courses" for the sailing events, Correa said. "There's no big risk for sailors having troubles with illnesses and such things."

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Sailors' associations have expressed reservations about water quality as well as the garbage, both of which they say could harm sailors' health. Olympic sailors have described the 2016 venue as a "sewer," complaining of the stench at the events' main venue, the Gloria Marina, and describing having to dodge floating sofas, animal carcasses, and plastic trash bags that foul rudders in the open waters. A few sailors have said they got sick after falling into the bay.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2015/01/23/brazil-official-rio-wont-meet-olympic-water-cleanup-pledge/22217227/

Stadiums first - this above all!!! And don't forget the lodging demands for IOC members. Priorities, people, priorities!

[BlueJazz]

1. What is THAT? "Oh...ah...um...chocolate bars, we had a barge of chocolate bars that turned over."

[MisterP]

2. they don't only have stadiums! Hoodoo Developmentalism also means you build honking concrete malls

("voodoo development" is an improper term in Latin America and Africa because numerous analyses have been made of how Santeria intersects and interacts with economics even at the macro-scale)