Bodies have been found in the waters Olympic athletes will compete in

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The sailing and windsurfing venue for the Games is at the centre of a major clean up mission - despite there being only a week until the athletes arrive.

A body was found last month in the latest case of human remains being discovered near Olympic venues.

And that is far from the only problem.

Before the event has even begun athletes have been robbed at gunpoint and even allegedly kidnapped by gangs on the streets of Rio.

Those taking part in water events will have another thing to think about whilst competing - after being warned not to open their mouths in the infected waters.

Bodies have been dumped in the heavily-polluted sailing and windsurfing venue of Guanabara Bay where Olympic yachtsmen and wind-surfers will compete.

Fisherman Jose Rubens told The Sun how he watched children at the Roquete Pinto favela on the bay’s rubbish-strewn shoreline pull a dismembered woman’s body from the waves.

Jose, 56, said: “They found a woman’s severed buttocks and upper legs three months ago.

“She was already starting to decompose.

“We didn’t tell the police. It’s not what people do here. We just pushed the remains back into the water.”

At the same time the Olympians accommodation has been rendered virtually uninhabitable by a putrid open sewer gushing through the village.

British athletes were forced to employ their own Rio plumber after discovering blocked toilets and leaking sewage pipes.

And bodies are not the only problem in the Rio waters.