Posts Tagged: olympics
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Jul 08
Algae blooms at Olympic sailing venue
Quindao, China Algae Bloom at sailing site, originally uploaded to Flickr by beijingente.
China’s latest Olympics nightmare is a vast algae bloom that covers one third of the sea where the world’s best sailors are supposed to be competing in just over a month. Athletes call it “the blob”, “the carpet”, “the fairway”, and “the serious problem”.