Posted on 07/28/2024 5:13:40 AM PDT by Libloather
The first swimming training session for triathletes in Paris has been cancelled due to levels of water pollution in the Seine.
Triathletes were set to take to the river this morning for a familiarisation session but World Triathlon and the organisation responsible for carrying out water quality tests deemed the standard had dipped below acceptable levels.
The Seine was declared clean enough for swimming after inspections in July but heavy rain in the French capital over the past 48 hours diminished the quality.
However, organisers are hopeful there will be no further delays.
A statement from Paris 2024 and World Triathlon read: 'The tests carried out in the Seine revealed water quality levels that in the view of the international federation, World Triathlon, did not provide sufficient guarantees to allow the event to be held.
'This is due to rain that has fallen on Paris on 26 and 27 July.
'Given the weather forecast for the next 48 hours, Paris 2024 and World Triathlon are confident that water quality will return to below limits before the start for of the triathlon competitions (scheduled for 30 July).'
Water quality can be affected by weather and levels of E. coli, a faecal bacteria. Tests are carried out in the Seine daily with the latest taking place on Saturday.
The men's triathlon is scheduled on Tuesday morning and the weather is expected to improve. The running and bike familiarisations proceeded as planned.
Despite the concerns over the water pollution, the women's individual event is to go ahead on Wednesday with the mixed relay event held the following week.
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Rain baby Rain!!
Why did they decide to hold the transymoics in a toxic cesspool?
What a filthy place to be
God will not be mocked!
Merde!
( sounds better in French)
maybe the thinking du jour is that heavy rains will dilute the “river outhouse” but the frenchies seem to forget that water causes qwap to flow downhill and guess what’s at the bottom...
Same thing happened in Brazil when they mocked God at Carnival.
“In Hell: The chefs are English; the police are German; the lovers are Swiss; the mechanics are French, and the whole place is run by the Italians.”
These Olympics are a Charley Foxtrot. I like it.
And so does this; "How do you say Dirty French Pig in American?"
To a gay man sex really does smell like sЧ!+...
Any river flowing through a major city is a filthy, disease infested sewer. I cannot believe that they planned any athletic events in the Seine. The evil New World Order hates humanity and is perfectly comfortable forcing them into a cesspool. The only solution for the animals that run Europe is the guillotine.
LOL!.......You win! đź‘Ť
France is a sh*thole, and their rivers prove it.
#BoycottOlympics2024
God will not be mocked. I hope this is just the beginning.
I wouldn’t jump in THAT river for anything. I read that K. Hepburn fell into a Venice canal and fought a fungal infection in her eyes for the rest of her life.
Talk about a đź’© show...
Hope NBCUniversal loses its shirt...
Paris could use an enema after the opening ceremony... Hope it downpours for a couple weeks.
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