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Int'l Sailing Federation Says Olympic Sailing In Rio Still Planned For Polluted Guanabara Bay

The Int'l Sailing Federation (ISAF) "is expected to announce this week that it is tentatively sticking to plans to hold races in next year’s Summer Olympics inside highly polluted Guanabara Bay, yet will keep the option open to moving the courses," according to Vinod Sreeharsha of the N.Y. TIMES. ISAF said that although reports of Rio de Janeiro’s polluted waters "are intensifying pressure on sports officials to reconsider, the provisional Olympic sailing competition schedule has three of five racecourses inside the bay, the same ones that were used in test events here in August." A fourth course inside the bay "has been added as a backup." The federation "will closely monitor the installation of a new sewage pipe in Marina da Gloria, scheduled to be completed by the end of the year" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/29).

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