The Rio Olympics are rife with problems and potential disasters
 

The Rio Olympics are rife with problems and potential disasters
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When the Rio Olympics are all said and done a couple weeks from **w, they may well be remembered only for the competition and joy they brought to the world.

But right **w, all anyone can talk about is how the water around Rio is toxic sludge and athletes are readying for war with a mosquito-borne virus.*

SEE ALSO: The Australian Olympic team is having a truly garbage time in Rio


We've listed some of the biggest problems and potential disasters of this Olympics, below.

The Zika threat

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In this Jan. 18, *photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, k**wn to be a carrier of the Zika virus, sits on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute of Sao Paulo University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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