Gevvie Stone won her women’s singles sculls heat by a small margin Saturday to qualify for Tuesday morning’s quarterfinals. And lest you think the 31-year-old Massachusetts native took some foolhardy risk delving into Rio’s notoriously fetid waters, know this: Stone is a doctor. It had off the charts levels of E. coli there.”The pollution sullying Rio’s waters has been well documented. Stone is considered a medal contender by dint of her fourth-place finish at last year’s world championships. “A lot of us row on places in the U.S. where I wouldn’t recommend jumping in, anyway.

Source: Washington Post August 06, 2016 17:44 UTC