Oops! I probably should have said every two meters or so.
Posted on 06/14/2024 3:22:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS (AP) — Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday.
Contamination levels in the first eight days of June, after persistent heavy rain in Paris, showed bacteria such as E. coli and enterococci beyond limits judged safe for athletes.
The report was published by monitoring group Eau de Paris one day after a senior International Olympic Committee executive said there were “no reasons to doubt” races will go ahead as scheduled in in a historic downtown stretch of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower.
The first Olympic event in the cleaned-up Seine is men’s triathlon, including a 1.5-kilometer (under 1 mile) swim, on the morning of July 30. The women’s triathlon is the next day and a mixed relay event is on Aug. 5.
Marathon swimming races over 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) for women and men are scheduled on Aug. 8 and 9, respectively, in waters that were historically polluted before a $1.5 billion investment ahead of the Olympics.
“We are confident that we will swim in the Seine this summer,” IOC official Christophe Dubi said Thursday at an online briefing after hearing an update Paris from city officials and Olympic organizers.
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LOL!! Recently watched the French made movie “Under Paris” on Netflix.
Does Paris have the same issues suffered by San Francisco?
If it gets worse, Macron can walk on the water with praise and adulation from his followers.
Sharks with freak’n lasers?
Didn’t macron say he was going to make the Seine so clean he was going to swim in it, so everyone pooped in the river to kill him with e coli?
Could be naturally ocurring, but dumping human waste into rivers is a common practice in the home countries of France’s “immigrants”.
Turd world invasion using the rivers like they do in their homelands.
Jihadi E. coli?
I was on a tour boat going under the various and famous bridges in Paris back in 1976. The water was brown then, don’t think it ever cleaned up since the days of the guillotine.
They’re gonna need a lot of pool shock and chlorine....
It’s been a sewer for 1000 years. The Marne and Oise aren’t supposed to be any better. I’d suggest Lake Geneva (big enough to dilute the pollution) or Annecy (supposedly the cleanest lake in France).
For ALL-FREEPATHON ALERT! Folks, we have only LESS THAN A MONTH of the quarter left, and we’re only at 67% to goal...gotta get’r’done!
Oops! I probably should have said every two meters or so.
IIRC, did the franks recently say they would #2 in the river in protest of the DOHlympics. Not watching in any case.
Don’t swim in it or drink it.
did n’t I read that the locals are crapping in the Seine on purpose, because the government is trying to clean it up for the Olympics?
Unregulated immigration and homeless leads to 🤔🤔🤔 stuff in the river!
So, it’s not hyperbolic to call them the filthy French.
No surprise; The French dump everything in the Seine.
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