PARIS — The mayor of Paris is getting ready to swim in the Seine River, and to the skeptics who doubt it will be clean enough for the Olympics, she says, “Come, it will be quite a nice party.”
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Will the Seine be ready for Olympic swimming? Paris officials ‘confident.’
The Austerlitz basin is designed to prevent sewage from overflowing into the Seine River and make it safe for triathlon and marathon swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
May 2, 2024 at 3:39 p.m. EDT