Poor water quality of French river has cast doubt over games next summer
email rounding up the latestThe Paris Olympics organisers have vowed to redouble efforts to clean up the Seine river after several test events were cancelled this weekend because of pollution, raising doubts over swimming plans for next summer’s games.
The decision was another setback to the city’s ambitions to reopen the Seine river to host two long-distance races and the swimming legs of the triathlon for the summer Olympics next year. Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 organising committee, told RMC radio on Sunday that “excellent improvements” to the river water quality had already been made and would continue “month by month”. “We are quite calm about next year,” he said.Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has also backed the effort to make the Seine swimmable again as a key legacy of the Olympics that will benefit city residents as summer temperatures rise because of climate change.
City officials were not able to immediately identify the reasons for the poor water quality on Saturday, and it had not rained much in the area in recent days. In early August, another test event was cancelled because heavy rains caused overflows of untreated waste in to the river.
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