The Seine is so dirty, Olympic athletes can't swim in it

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High levels of E. coli in the Seine river postponed the 2024 Olympics Men's triathlon July 30, even after the French government put $1.5 billion into cleaning it.

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00:00We came and just found out when we got here and saw that nothing was set up in the transition
00:21area that it wasn't happening this morning.
00:51And all the athletes are not happy that it's a duathlon.
00:55They all want this duathlon because they trained for it.
01:21It's not happening.
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