‘Rio waters for sailing events cleaner than before’

RIO DE JANEIRO: South Korean sailor Ha Jee-min has been coming to the city of Rio de Janeiro for three years for competitions, and he remembers seeing debris floating

RIO DE JANEIRO: South Korean sailor Ha Jee-min has been coming to the city of Rio de Janeiro for three years for competitions, and he remembers seeing debris floating in the polluted waters of the Brazilian city. But when he began his Olympic campaign Monday in the Laser event at Marina da Gloria — the starting point for sailing events — Ha found the waters “very clean,” reports Yonhap. “My first year here, the waters were extremely bad, and there were sofas in them,” Ha said on Monday. “But they weren’t so bad in my second year. This year, they’re really good, perhaps even cleaner than in Korea.”

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