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Sailing official wants Rio water pollution tests

By Stephen Wade
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Sailing official wants Rio water pollution tests

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sailing’s governing body may conduct independent water-quality tests in Rio de Janeiro’s polluted Guanabara Bay, the sailing venue for the 2016 Olympics and the site of Rio’s first test event in 2½ months.

Any hope Brazil would be able to clean up the sewage-filled bay soon was quashed in a document obtained by The Associated Press over the weekend.

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