• Naz@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Apparently the article states that the river failed E. Coli testing after heavy rainfalls, with levels detected 10 times the acceptable count.

        This honestly just seems like a failure of the administration to properly take care of the athletes and wanting to go ahead with “a historic river race”.

        They could have delayed or re-tested.

        Olympics or not, they swam through a river of shit.

        • nte@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          It did not fail on the days of the race. A river moves, shit moves. This is open water, it has different qualities and amounts of shit in it on different days. That’s how it is. If you like to swim in lakes and rivers then you have to deal with the fact that there’s shit in it, just don’t do it if there’s too much.