Asian Games: Sailors battling foes, pollution-caused health worries

Japan's Asian Games sailors have been competing in Jakarta Bay while battling diarrhea and fever.The cause of the health issues is believed to be sewage in the bay's polluted waters, where in June at the Asian Championship one Japanese sailor after another was incapacitated, according to a source with Japan's team.Following that experience, the team developed countermeasures but due to the nature of racing small boats, ingesting some seawater is virtually unavoidable."In Rio, there was garbage on the surface of the water, but here it is a water quality issue," said Manami Doi, who raced Las…READ FULL ARTICLE