La contaminación en las Olimpiadas

Haile Gebrselassie, the Ethiopian great champion and favorite to take first gold medal in the marathon in the coming Beijing Olympics, has already announced he will not run it.

It is the first of several more that will surely give up participating in the Olympics in China to be held from next summer, after the report that has issued the IOC Medical Commission (IOC) which has indicted that the level of pollution is so bad in Beijing, which carries some risk and may affect the health of the participants that act on evidence that is performed outdoors.

This is the case, therefore, in sports such as cycling, marathon, swimming, running or triathlon. This is because such tests require continuous physical exertion and high which means a greater amount of air in the lungs, in this case, contaminated.

Obviously, although China has long since been fighting the pollution, Beijing is a problem that has dragged on for decades. The first question that arises now is whether Olympic interests are above the health of athletes, because when making the choice of location every four years, issues such as environment supposed to be ignored. "Nobody saw the risk we now come to light after the medical report? "Nobody could think at high levels of pollution in Beijing?

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