I don’t know why all the teams don’t just refuse to take part in any event in the Seine.
Except it does not continuously fail. You can check meseurements here : https://www.paris.fr/pages/meteo-de-la-seine-quelle-est-la-qualite-de-l-eau-du-fleuve-27467 Water is tested multiple time a day and we can see that water was at acceptable level the days of competition
Did you skip every relevant piece of information before making this comment or do you really think every open body of water gives people infections?
Most bathing spots take water tests and warn on bad days, so they did for the Seine. It is fine most of the days. What pieces information are you consuming? Anything but badly written rage articles?
Look, even if that were true, then I would say the same about any open water. It’s a severe health risk that no-one should be taking. Proper facilities could have been put in place.
#JusticeForRio
If she got sick from the swim, she got unlucky because the bacteria levels were “very good”. She probably got sick from somewhere else.
It was not E. coli that made her sick, she wrote, adding that she sought treatment at a clinic in the Olympic Village on Sunday after several days of vomiting and diarrhea “left me quite empty.”
World Triathlon said the bacteria levels last week when the individual triathlon events were held were considered “very good” and that the levels were also within acceptable limits during Monday’s triathlon mixed relay event.
The cleanliness test results were from samples taken before heavy rainfalls caused the sewers to overflow
Cleanliness test were also made just before the race. The article from apnews talks about them. I could only find french newspaper talking about it but the “heavy rainfalls” seemed NOT to be a problem.
L’orage de mardi soir “n’est pas passé loin”, a admis mercredi le préfet de région Marc Guillaume, mais “il n’a pas plu sur la zone d’épreuves”. En cas de précipitations intenses, de l’eau non traitée peut être rejetée dans le fleuve, un phénomène que les ouvrages de rétention inaugurés juste avant les Jeux ont vocation à empêcher. (https://www.europe1.fr/sport/jo-paris-2024-la-qualite-de-leau-de-la-seine-tres-bonne-lors-des-epreuves-de-triathlon-4260748)
Tuesday evening’s thunderstorm “was a close call”, admitted regional prefect Marc Guillaume on Wednesday, but “it didn’t rain on the event zone”. In the event of heavy rainfall, untreated water can be discharged into the river, a phenomenon that the retention structures inaugurated just before the Games are designed to prevent.
The French aren’t known for their hygiene so I am not surprised their river is filthy
I know they probably didn’t have a choice, but you have to be braindead to swim in that river.
