Cities used to try to outdo one another in putting on the games.
Now they seem to in competition to make them both dangerous and pointless.
Swimming in a toilet can do that.
Muzzies crapping in the river?
Hubby was thrilled watching that US gal just totally outrun the rest of the field in some bike race today, so I joined him for the end. To get to the finish line they rode across a bridge across the Seine, the water was brown. Totally brown, it looked like mud.
E-Coli is no joke. Makes me cringe just thinking about people swimming in nasty water.
How fitting.
These people think they can control the climate of the entire world.
Why are they swimming in the river, especially one that flows through a big city and is certain to be polluted? I thought Olympic water sports were held in swimming pools.
It would be like NY City hosting the Olympics and having triathletes swim in the East River
With all those “logs” floating in the Seine they should have had an Olympdic Lumberjack Roll event.
They’re asking these champions to swim through a sewer. What kind of IDIOTS decided to hold the event in such a polluted cesspool?
You would think that every olympic team would advise their athletes NOT to do weird or unusual things that could potentially cause problems for them. Swimming in a river you don’t know much about and don’t normally swim in, would be something on such a list of things.
I think the IOC should award a special medal to all triathletes who bravely swam in the fetid Seine.
You had to know, after heavy rains on opening day, the street runoff and storm sewers would foul the river. Totally ridiculous plan to begin with, the stunt is a display of typical french narcissism.