Our reporter in Brazil, Gary Meenaghan, reports that Tuesday marks two years until the start of the 2016 Olympic Games and coincides with the first of Rio's 45 official test events scheduled to be held over the next 24 months.
The international sailing regatta started on Saturday and runs for one week, but already an Austrian boat has been damaged after hitting rubbish while training in the bay, and its pilot, Nico Delle Karth, revealing he saw a dead dog floating on the surface.
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