The Rio the World Cup didn't show

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- There's shit in the water.

Two days after Brazil crashed out of the World Cup, on Thursday morning, one of Rio's foremost sanitation activists, Leona Deckelbaum, came down to Copacabana Beach to work.

She couldn't help laughing.

Tourists swam in the ocean across the street, and up and down the coast in both directions. In a city with a terrible sewage system even in the fancy neighborhoods and no complete sewage or water service in any of the 900-plus favelas, this is a terrible idea.

She had numbers, and a twinkle in her eye.


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[estevamsp33]

1. Sounds like an article written by a butt-hurt old rag.

The title is fascinating. "The Rio the World Cup didn't show". Yep, because we all expect WC to broadcast sewage in the favelas... I can still remember they doing this when the United States hosted the Olympics or the WC... oh... wait.

We could also talk about the "Chicago that the American olympic committee didn't show" and it wouldn't be a pretty figure.

That's why nobody takes ESPN seriously anymore. They should drop politics and start focusing on sports. This article is pathetic.

[Cal33]

2. How right you are. We love to show up other people's weak points, but we aren't so happy,

if others do the same to us. Let's hope ESPN is aware of this, and has made a change for the better.