RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of World Sailing is promising a launching ramp that collapsed a few days ago will be ready on Friday — three days before the sailing competition starts at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
The launching ramp, one of two being used at the Marina da Gloria venue, broke apart on Saturday. Organizers are blaming strong waves and poor design.
Andy Hunt, the head of World Sailing, says “if it was absolutely necessary, we could still carry on competition, but it would just be logistically very difficult.”
Rio organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada says the new ramp will be slightly smaller than the one that broke. He says “that ramp was maybe a bit too big.”
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