River Seine fails water quality tests 30 days from Paris Olympics • FRANCE 24 English
due to host two Olympic sports events in under 30 days time but the pollution levels in the river sen are still too high recent water quality tests show levels of ecoli bacteria are 10 times higher than the standards set by World Triathlon and quantities of ento coxy bacteria are also at unsafe levels meaning athletes could risk getting diseases like gastroenteritis or skin conditions less than one year ago athletes from across the world had dived into the sen during a test Triathlon event some record not being able to see the end of their arm in the water but that it hadn’t been so bad a world away from the 1930s when hundreds of parisians would participate in the annual s swimming races it seems to be a good thing to start last in this annual race through Paris because the river s gets so full you could almost walk over the swimmers in front French authorities have spent the last 10 years cleaning up the river by improving the sewage system and building new water treatment and storage facilities a project which has cost them € 1.4 billion EUR but despite their efforts recent weeks of heavy rainfall coupled with an overwhelmed Wastewater network has left the s still dirty Paris mayor anelu who promised to do a test swim on June 26th has also had to postpone her dip in the sen until after the leg legislative elections
The river Seine is still failing water quality tests one month before the Paris Olympics when it is scheduled to host the open-water swimming competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon, results showed Friday. The latest tests, completed last week and released by the Paris mayor’s office, showed levels of the E.Coli bacteria – an indicator of faecal matter – are far above the upper limits imposed by sports federations.
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21 comments
😂🤣😅
Uh-oh.
Now what? Change the venue.
Move the triathlon to the ocean coast or Switzerland.
Gross. Classic dirty parisians. If you want to go to France, go anywhere besides Paris.
A river in the city, what do you expect? pure water? 😂
Had same issue in Rio but it was the ocean!
OMG, 1ST thousands of French troops come back DOA from Ukraine and now this
Gotta stop pooping in the river
who could imagine that Olympic games are a good opportunity to make some shady money
France is not Singapore
The rumour is that they are renaming it the river Stain and the letters are mandated by Macron to be in brown. That's brown as in "soil" brown?
Parisians have been pooping in the river in protest 😂
Just add a lot of ice the night before.
10x higher… Jesus lol
Just swim in the pool.
Unfortunately this is a project that should have been completed many years ago and not just for the Olympic games. Parisians should have the previledge to enjoy the clear waters
Swimming is one of most watched Olympic game don't mess up
😂😂😂😂😂😂 they can swim in the gutters 😂😂😂
There's no way Paris is gonna get the seine to a safe level for swimming in time for the Olympics. They're gonna have to go with plan b. Have the triathlon and marathon swimming someplace else.
Shut it down, all those rich elites who couldn’t care about the athletes are getting away with this!