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Originally Posted by legion

I'm just surprised that nothing has collapsed. Did they ever finish the subway station? If the worst problems are a green pool and an athlete (maybe or maybe not) got robbed, this is pretty good by Rio standards.

The media has done a pretty good job of sweeping the Brazilian dirt under the rug, but they didn't get it all:

Rio resident spots a SEVERED LEG floating in the water just a few miles from Olympics sailing events
Gruesome find was made by a local yesterday in city's Guanabara Bay
It came as Britain's Scott Giles opened up an unassailable lead nearby
Sailing events on the bay in Rio are scheduled for the next four days
Police were called after residents of Ilha do Governador saw male leg
By MATT ROPER IN RIO DE JANEIRO FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:45 EST, 15 August 2016 | UPDATED: 16:43 EST, 15 August 2016


Sailors competing in the Rio Olympics could have bumped in to a severed leg - if a local hadn’t have spotted the body part floating near the competition.
The gruesome find yesterday in the city's Guanabara Bay came as Britain's Scott Giles opened up a unassailable lead in Finn class, in waters just a few miles away.
Sailing events on the bay in the Brazilian city are scheduled for the next four days.


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Rio 2016: Open water swimming platform collapses just off Copacabana beach
The starting platform sank after it was hit by a storm
Matt Payton

Swimmers were forced to wade out to the start line after the starting platform collapsed and was washed away Reuters
Competitors in the Olympic marathon swimming event were forced to swim out from the beach after the official starting platform collapsed and sank just off Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach.

The pontoon platform was hit by a storm days before the event was due to start, leaving just a concrete block behind.

The organisers had already come under criticism for hosting the event in the open waters just off the Brazilian shore.

Rio's horror week: Body parts wash up near Olympics beach volleyball site
By Tiffany Ap, CNN
Updated 4:19 PM ET, Thu June 30, 2016
Body parts found near Rio summer Olympics site

(CNN)With just 36 days to go before the Rio Olympics kick off, the situation in the host city just went from bad to worse.

A beach goer Wednesday discovered human body parts that had washed up on the shore, right in front of the Olympic Beach Volleyball Arena on Rio's famed Copacabana beach.
A dismembered foot and another body part still unidentified was found, according to Andre Luiz, an officer of the Military Police. Police believe the victim was a woman or young adult.
Although the circumstances surrounding the person's death are unknown, it is another embarrassing blow to the host country -- already reeling from financial problems, a mishap-prone Olympic torch and an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Rio's dirty water claims 'first victim': star Belgian sailor sick after racing on polluted bay

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/08/11/rios-dirty-water-claims-first-victim-star-belgian-sailor-sick-af/