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  Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

  Sailing at the Paralympic Games is one of the only sports in which athletes of many different disabilities compete against each other on equal terms. Not only does ...

  On September 1, 2016 / By Administrator
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  Should the 2016 Olympic Games be Moved?

  There has been much talk about the polluted Olympic venues of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A recent article by Dr. Amir Attaran in the Harvard Public Health Review ...

  On May 19, 2016 / By Administrator
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  Rio Olympic Water Polluted, Even Far Offshore

  Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year’s games: He’d wear ...

  On December 10, 2015 / By Administrator
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  Rio Olympics 2016: Athletes Face Swimming and Boating in Polluted Waters

  Athletes in next year’s Summer Olympics in Brazil will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to ...

  On August 6, 2015 / By Administrator