Men’s Olympic triathlon is postponed due to concerns over water quality in Paris’ Seine River
The men’s Olympic triathlon planned for Tuesday has been postponed over concerns about water quality in Paris’ Seine River, where the swimming portion of the race was supposed to take place.
Organizers said they will try to hold the men’s triathlon Wednesday instead. The women’s competition is also scheduled on Wednesday, but both are subject to water tests. Friday is also planned as a backup date.
But Meteo-France, the French weather service, was forecasting storms Tuesday night, light rain Wednesday afternoon and storms Thursday, which could complicate rescheduling the events.
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Wow the Seine might be dirty and unhygienic. That seems completely out of left field. No way to have seen this coming.
After reading several headlines about the poor water quality over the last 6-12 months, this one is perfection — chef's kiss.
I wonder if people did commit to pooping on it out of spite for it only being cleaned for the Olympics.
Next thing you know they'll cancel the swimming events they scheduled inside an active volcano
That they didn’t have a backup route is baffling. They’ve been testing the levels for months and they had to have known they weren’t going to be at safe levels in time. I commend the ecological work to clean the river but you shouldn’t punish these athletes because your waterway is gross.
The olympic Surf competition is happening on the other side of the World in Tahiti. Are you telling me France does not have a backup lake to do this in anywhere? After 6 years of planning? Do it in lake Geneva or Étang de Berre...jfc
The whole point of a triathlon is to run, bike, and swim. It won't be easy moving it elsewhere and closing the roadways, setting up security, and shuttling participants and staff on short notice.
Hopefully they have a Plan B.
Their plan B last time I heard was to make it a
biathlonduathlon without swimming...which is just a joke.Isn't that called a duathlon to distinguish it from the winter Olympic event?
The one that’s all… ski ski, pew pew pew, ski ski ski? How did that one get started…
You see, there was this Norwegian hunter with an AMD processor who liked both men and women..
Never underestimate the commitment of the French people.
They didn't check this beforehand?
They did a whole thing on TV where the mayor swam in the water.
Did
heshe actually do that? I heard there was an app to tell people along its route exactly when to shit in it so it would make it to Paris around the timeheshe was swimming.Edit: my bad. Apparently the mayor is a woman.
Mayor is a woman, I saw a clip of it while my parent were watching the news.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8VHnGtNez8A
Yea, it was fine, but then there was a major rogue summer storm during the inauguration 🤣 right over Paris.
which washed all the shit into la Seine and...well...it's shitty again. Literally yelling at a cloud for ruining it.
Nice
That's (not) in-Seine.
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