Rogue oysters threaten to disrupt Tokyo Olympics, after officials shelled out $1 million for repairs

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Tokyo Olympic officials are closely monitoring the waterway where canoeing and rowing events are to take place for an unusual threat – rogue oysters.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Rowing Training Sessions - Sea Forest Waterway, Tokyo, Japan - July 18, 2021 China team during a training session REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Organizers hired divers to enter the water to deep clean the shellfish-laden equipment, which had been erected to prevent waves from hitting athletes during the games or from disrupting the route.

It's been a worry this summer in the lead-up to the boat races. "I hope none of them are attached to the devices," a staffer at a May boat-racing competition to select athletes for the Games at the same location told Asahi Shimbun. The Japanese paper described the staffer as "worriedly gazing into the water as if a monster was lurking below the surface."

 

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