We all read Sally Jenkins’s indispensable guide to the corruption, lack of security, and filth of the 2016 Rio Olympics. Now she breaks down like a fraction all of the mounting failures – everything from acid green pools to suspicious packages to shots fired at media sites.
Meanwhile IOC execs have gone Full Mayor Quimby – “Nothing to see here, move along…”
From the article:
“You know those swimming pools at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre that turned so green? The official explanations don’t add up, according to water expert Joseph Cotruvo, who spent 25 years as the Environmental Protection Agency’s director of drinking water standards. I emailed him the transcripts of Rio organizers’ meandering statements that hydrogen peroxide was mistakenly poured into the pools on the day of the Opening Ceremonies, neutralizing the chlorine, and their insistence the pools were nevertheless safe. Cotruvo wrote back that the official statements suggest the pools might have gone without adequate disinfecting for four days. From a health standpoint, “That is unconscionable,” he wrote.”
The advice the IOC had for athletes? Don’t open your eyes or mouth.
