Rio Olympics

The Olympics in 2016 are supposed to be held in Rio but supposedly the water in Rio is so polluted and bad that the athletes are getting sick and they said they would try and clean it up. After awhile I guess they came out and said it's going to extremely hard to fix or that they may not be able to do so. This just seems really confusing to me the fact that they chose a place and did not think ahead of time of the consequences of what would happen if athletes from around the world would happen to meet at this place. They must have known that there was pollution and have a understanding on how bad it really was before deciding where to put it. A similar thing happened in China for the Olympics and was said athletes were getting sick there too. I wish they put more effort before making these decisions and would figure out what to do before everything becomes such a big problem that they can not fix it in time for the Olympics. They are reporting that it was a scandal that involves long scheme that the oil company was allowed to use the water as waste therefore allowing them to dump whatever in there they needed because it brought so much economy. I don't ever think the economy is worth this much damage and pollution to your area. It can be so harmful to people that I think the risk out weighs the return on the economy. This is not the first time this has happened, where big companies were basically aloud to do whatever they want because they brought so many jobs and helped the economy in the area especially through the rough times. If you were to do something like this, I don't see how you then could think it would be okay to host an Olympics competition where people all over the world will come and participate. People from different parts of the world would probably handle the pollution differently too. One place might be super clean to them and when they get to Rio, their body might go in to overdrive and get extremely sick. I hope they can do something about this before the Olympic games start, but I just don't see how this seems to be a reoccurring thing that happens years and years when you could just send someone there beforehand to see if everything checks out and is safe enough for the athletes to participate.