{"id":23476,"date":"2015-08-06T15:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23476"},"modified":"2015-08-06T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:17:03","slug":"rio-olympics-2016-athletes-face-swimming-and-boating-in-polluted-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/08\/rio-olympics-2016-athletes-face-swimming-and-boating-in-polluted-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Olympics 2016: Athletes Face Swimming and Boating in Polluted Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes in next year&#8217;s Summer Olympics in Brazil\u00a0will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.\u00a0An AP analysis of water quality revealed dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues &#8211; results that alarmed international experts and dismayed competitors training in Rio, some of whom have already fallen ill with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first independent comprehensive testing for both viruses and bacteria at the Olympic sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/d92f6af5121f49d982601a657d745e95\/ap-investigation-rios-olympic-water-rife-sewage-virus\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes in next year&#8217;s Summer Olympics in Brazil\u00a0will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.\u00a0An AP analysis of water quality revealed dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues &#8211; results that alarmed international experts and dismayed competitors training in Rio, some of whom have already fallen ill with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea. It is the first independent comprehensive testing for both viruses and bacteria at the Olympic sites. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[644,642,643],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23501,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions\/23501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}