In June, human body parts washed ashore on Copacabana Beach in front of the Olympic beach volleyball arena. Rio may be the glummest city ever to host the Summer OlympicsThe Olympic city: Sights and sounds of Rio On Sunday, a spokesman for the Rio Olympic Committee said that he could not confirm a persistent rumor that a kayaker ran into a submerged sofa in Rio’s Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. It was not to be, however, on the day of the first official Olympic test of Rio de Janeiro’s famously polluted waters. The canals that run alongside the Olympic Park in western Rio emit a punishing odor of raw sewage.

Source: Washington Post August 08, 2016 21:19 UTC