Olympics|The Seine is still not clean enough for swimming.
Seine River still not fit to stage the Olympics, CNN tells. According to CNN’s calculations, there is less coliform bacteria in the river than before, but it is still well above the limit of good water quality.
It is planned to swim in the Seine, for example, the swimming part of the Olympic triathlon and the swimming marathon.
in Paris there is also no backup plan if the water is not suitable for swimming by the time of the Olympics, the World Triathlon organization confirms to CNN.
The first measure would be to move the swimming part of the triathlon during the day, but if that doesn’t work either, the triathlon would have to become a duathlon.
However, the cleanliness of Seinen’s water is supposed to improve significantly thanks to the drier and hotter summer weather, which reduces the amount of wastewater ending up in the river.
French the authorities have spent more than 1.4 billion euros to clean the river, which has been unswimmable for more than a hundred years. Critics feel that the large amount of money spent on cleaning could have been used more wisely.
And the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo that the president Emmanuel Macron have promised to swim in the Seine on June 23 to prove its swimmability.
Those protesting the cleaning of the river have set up a campaign to defecate in the river on the same day that Hidalgo and Macron take a dip there.
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