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First training sessions in the Seine cancelled due to poor water quality

Training sessions planned for Sunday on the Seine River in Paris for competitions scheduled there during the Olympic Games have been cancelled due to poor water quality.

The Olympic Organising Committee (OOC), together with the International Triathlon Federation and local authorities, decided to suspend the Games after rain on Friday and Saturday because “water levels did not provide sufficient guarantees”.

In their statement, they did not indicate the levels of measured E. coli and enterococci, bacteria that are monitored in river water quality control, one of the major problems still facing the Paris Games competitions.

The river triathlon swimming test is scheduled for July 30 for men, July 31 for women and August 5 for the mixed relay. The women’s and men’s open water marathons are also scheduled to take place in the Seine on August 31 and 5.

Paris’ strategy is to make the most emblematic places the protagonists of the Games. The problem is that there is no full guarantee that the competitions will be held in the river, despite the fact that the French administration has invested 1.4 billion euros since 2016 in an ambitious plan to improve the water quality and make it possible to swim from the summer of 2025. on the stretch of river that runs through Paris, something that has been impossible for a century.

On July 17, the mayor of Paris swam in front of cameras and dozens of journalists along with the head of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, and the prefect (government delegate) on the island of Ile-de-France to show that it was possible.