Brazil admits defeat in Olympics water clean-up

Rio de Janeiro’s mayor has admitted that the much-touted goal of cleaning up the Brazilian city’s blighted waterways in time for the 2016 Olympics will probably not be met, with just 500 days until the games begin.

Eduardo Paes told SporTV that cleaning up Guanabara Bay, the sewage and rubbish-infested channel where the Olympic sailing events are to be held, “is something that we should have been able to achieve”.