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Paris Mayor Takes Dip in the Seine to Showcase Its Cleanliness as Olympic Events Loom
Euronews ^ | 17/07/2024

Posted on 07/17/2024 8:25:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The French capital's main waterway will be at the centre of the 2024 games' opening ceremony, and authorities have been working hard to purge it of pollution.

After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo finally dipped in the Seine River on Wednesday, nine days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games.

Clad in a wetsuit, Hidalgo plunged into the river near the imposing-looking City Hall, her office, and the Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet joined her. They followed in the footsteps of French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who swam in the Seine on Saturday wearing a full-body suit.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; France; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; eussr; fourthreich; goneinseine; hidalgo; inseine; notnews; olympics; paris; seine; wentinseine
Can someone ping me when he's in the ICU with typhoid or cholera?
1 posted on 07/17/2024 8:25:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Bet she got a shot of gamma globulin before she went in. And then took a prophylactic shower and nasal rinse.

So disgusting lol. Swam in an islamic sewer!


2 posted on 07/17/2024 8:31:45 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURNGreat speech! He was a cla OF THE JEDI. )
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To: nickcarraway

That’s inseine.


3 posted on 07/17/2024 8:33:27 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Parisians have been having a “poop protest” and have be defecating in the Seine River, the very river this woman is swimming in. I guarantee that she’ took a really long, long shower and a lot of antibiotics after that swim.


4 posted on 07/17/2024 8:34:41 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Good one.


5 posted on 07/17/2024 8:34:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Not to worry!

It’s a Baby Ruth!


6 posted on 07/17/2024 8:40:32 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: nickcarraway

The next day, Mme. Hidalgo began growing a male penis out of her right ear.


7 posted on 07/17/2024 8:50:08 PM PDT by twister881
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> The next day, Mme. Hidalgo began growing a male penis out of her right ear.

It would have been even worse if it was a female penis.

These days, you just can't be too careful....

8 posted on 07/17/2024 9:40:54 PM PDT by dayglored (“Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given.” - Kinky Friedman 1944-2024)
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To: nickcarraway

Will they swim in the Los Angeles River in four years?


9 posted on 07/17/2024 11:26:44 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

fyi...a baby Ruth bar doesn’t float so if you see one floating, DON’T EAT IT!


10 posted on 07/18/2024 4:15:57 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: wildcard_redneck

Not so bad when you see Indians bathing and brushing thier teeth in thier sacred river


11 posted on 07/18/2024 4:26:16 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: nickcarraway

....then dies.


12 posted on 07/18/2024 5:11:43 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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