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Paris 2024 Olympics: is open-water swimming in the Seine safe?

By Jamie Wilks, PhD Candidate, Sport Ecology, Loughborough University
Loïs Mougin, PhD Candidate in Exercise and Environmental Physiology, Loughborough University

Open-water swimming events at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris could be scuppered by the Seine river, where bathing has been prohibited since 1923.

Faecal contamination of the Seine, which winds 777 kilometres through northern France, exceeded the bathing quality standard for safe swimming just two…

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