Participants of this weekend's Open Water Swimming World Cup were barred from a Friday morning training session in Paris' river Seine as heavy rainfall caused water quality to dip below health standards, while a women's event was postponed.
Organisers said the women's 10 kilometre race originally planned for Saturday - a qualifying event for marathon swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympics - had been postponed to August 6.
"If the results are bad again ... obviously, to ensure the swimmers' safety, we'll have to continue with the same restrictions," said engineer Aurelie Lemaire, as she was taking samples from the Seine.at the French capital's Parc de la Villette in northern Paris.again, as it was during the 1900 Paris Olympics more than a century ago.
As a result, bathing in the Seine has been banned since 1923, with promises to restore water quality going back to 1990, when Paris mayor Jacques Chirac - later French president - vowed to make the Seine swimmable again.Construction on an 80 billion euro underground overflow basin designed to prevent such contamination is expected to be completed before summer 2024.
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