Despite the complication of recent heavy rain, swimming in the River Seine is still the plan at the Paris Olympics after a $1.5 billion investment to improve the water quality. International Olympic Committee executive Christophe Dubi says there's “no reasons to doubt” swimming events will happen in the Seine as planned.
FILE - Athletes dive and swim in the Seine River from the Alexander III bridge on the first leg of the women’s triathlon test event for the Olympic Games in Paris , Aug. 17, 2023. In 2024. LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Despite the complication of recent heavy rain, swimming in the River Seine is still the plan at the
“No reasons to doubt,” International Olympic Committee executive Christophe Dubi said Thursday at an online briefing after hearing from city officials and Summer Games organizers. “We are confident that we will swim in the Seine this summer.” Marathon swimmers and triathletes are scheduled to plunge into the cleaned-up waters after the Olympics open July 26.Key to the cleaning up has been digging a huge reservoir next to Austerlitz train station to collect excess rainwater and prevent bacteria-laden waste entering the river.
In other Paris Olympics news — from 124 years ago — the IOC awarded France an extra medal Thursday from the 1900 Summer Games and took it from Britain. The silver medal won by Lloyd Hildebrand in men’s 25-kilometer cycling has now been credited to France because, the IOC executive board decided, “even though Hildebrand was a British citizen, he was born and brought up in France, and competed for a French club before and after Paris 1900.”
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