2023-08-05 08:55:13
While the mayor of Paris wants to make the Seine open to swimming, the open water swimming event scheduled for Saturday, in dress rehearsal before the Olympics, had to be postponed.
This is one of the challenges of the 2024 Olympic Games: to show Paris in its best light. Among the symbols of the city, in addition to the monuments, there is of course the Seine. The river will also be the scene of the traditional opening ceremony, which will not take place in a stadium, for once.
It is also in the Seine that the open water swimming events are planned. For the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, this is an opportunity to highlight the improvement of the quality of the water in the river, which she wishes to make a place for swimming.
Bathing in the Seine, J. #Chirac had dreamed of it in 1990 and A. #Hidalgothe mayor of #Parishas made it its hobbyhorse following the awarding of #JO. It’s a promise worth 1 billion euros, regarding to come true. @TheoManeval, @LaszloGelabert et @Pie2re_2H2orne ⬇ pic.twitter.com/yUE17JdkfP
— C in the air (@Cdanslair) July 31, 2023
Obviously, there is still a bit of work to do. This Saturday were to take place the “test-event” events, competitions organized in the summer preceding the Olympic Games, on the future sites of the competition.
But Saturday’s races had to be postponed due to “the quality of the water of the Seine, which currently remains below acceptable standards for safeguarding the health of swimmers”, said the French Swimming Federation in a press release. They might take place on Sunday, but the decision will only be taken at the very last moment. “A new update is expected around 5am on August 6th”indicates the FFN.
It is the heavy rains that have fallen in recent days in the capital that have degraded the water of the Seine. In a joint statement, the organizing committee of the Olympics (Cojop) and the local authorities (Town hall, Prefecture) reacted by recalling that “The sanitation dynamic continues with the completion of the most significant work to improve water quality in the coming months, in particular to deal with these exceptional weather events. » Do not panic, then?
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