Van Rysselberghe calls the water ” disgusting and dangerous, ” he wrote Thursday after his victory in the Copa Brasil de Vela on its own website. The Olympic champion of 2012 was two years ago also critical of the quality of the water.
“I often had plastic on my fin. My training partner came across this thirteen times in one race. We need to sail during the race to get off this floating debris of our surf boards. ”
” How could that be during the Games? “, continues Van Rysselberghe. “Windsurfers and sailors who sail back to win a race. This is what will happen if no one is willing to take drastic measures to change this continual pollution of local waters.”
Issue
The water quality in the bay of Guanabara, where the Olympic sailors will compete for medals, has long been a problem. Complained regularly, but the solution seems not yet to be found.
Sports umbrella organization NOC * NSF maintains water quality even noticing. Technical director Maurits Hendriks called Guanabara Bay ” a real problem ”
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