Men's Olympic triathlon postponed due to Seine River pollution

Australian Community Media
Australian Community Media
  • 3 months ago
If bacteria levels remain high, races will continue to be postponed. But if water quality does not improve, the swim leg will be scrapped in favour of a duathlon. Swimming has been off-limits in the polluted Seine River for more than a century, but ahead of the Paris Olympic Games, the government spent $1.5 billion in an attempt to clean it.

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00:00Of course, we are all disappointed because we are not able to follow strictly what was
00:13planned.
00:14But the situation at this point, we are quite confident that that will happen tomorrow and
00:21then we will be very happy, all of us.
00:24And the first ones, the athletes.

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