The Seine is just too polluted, it misses the pre-Olympic race

It is one in every of maximum awaited trials at the Paris Olympics in 2024the swimming competition within the Senna with a view to be swimmable once more. But the ambitious challenge, flagship of the mayor, the socialist Anne Hidalgo, for now maintains to go through setbacks: the test event, the swimming race scheduled for nowadays, has been canceled due to the fact water nice judged “beneath ideal requirements” due to river pollutants. This turned into decided by means of World Aquatics, the global swimming federation, after consulting the present day consequences of the water analyzes throughout the night time.

Friday’s schooling had already been canceled and the women’s match postponed from yesterday to nowadays, Sunday, inside the wish that the bacteriological analyzes would enhance. But the continual and heavy rains that fell in the closing week at the Ile-de-France motive the sewers to overflow and carry the wastewater lower back into the river. Result: the presence costs of the Escherichia Coli bacterium are above the bounds.

“The health of the athletes need to constantly be our first precedence,” he brought Husain Al-Musallam, the president of World Aquatics, to explain the selection. The already expected agenda of the Paris Games stipulates that three Olympic and Paralympic occasions – triathlon, swimming marathon and paratriathlon – will take region in the Seine. As a legacy of the Olympics, if all is going in accordance to devise, 3 open-air bathing areas available from the pier are predicted to be set up by means of 2025, in order to mark the return, after a long absence, of swimmers and divers to the Parisian river.

Indicating the river’s water great “beneath suitable standards”, World Aquatics delivered in a declaration: “We must retain to paintings with Paris 2024 and the nearby authorities to ensure that strong contingency plans are in place for next 12 months”, in advance of the Games to be held next summer time and which see some planned swimming competitions in the Seine.