This Olympics was doomed before it even began. The swimmers are going to be basically swimming in feces/a sewer/raw sewage.
The competition pools are sanitized, balanced and ozonated and are as safe as any water on the planet. If you refer to the trialthletes, that's a different story but anyone who swims in any untreated (and even some treated with chlorine only) body of water runs the possibility of serious health risks ranging from
e. coli, pseudomonas, cryptosporidium parvum, Naegleria fowleri (brain-eating ameoba), giardia lamblia....on and on). I would never advise anyone concerned about their health and safety to swim in the ocean (or a lake or river) unless forced to.
I really hope the U.S. women's gymnastics team loses, although I don't foresee that happening.
Being an American, why in the world would you wish that? Not very patriotic, especially considering that these girls are true amateurs. I'm definitely rooting for them and all American athletes to do well (so far, I haven't been disappointed). These athletes work their asses off in order to represent our country in international competition. We owe it to them to return that dedication by supporting them. Love Katie Ledecky making that cheating Russian PED user Yulia Elfemova look like an idiot when she waggled an "I'm number 1" finger to the cameras before Ledecky totally destroyed her in the finals. Go USA girls!