Paris Olympic organizers are making contingency plans as questions remain about the safety of the River Seine that is due to host open-water swimming events.
Paris Olympics The latest testing results from monitoring group Eau de Paris released on Thursday raised some hopes, showing that water pollution levels in Paris’s River Seine have improved over the past week.“Despite a flow rate that remains high, the water quality of the Seine has improved over the period observed, with water quality in line with the thresholds defined by the European directive over six days,” the city said in a statement along with the results.
“The rules of World Triathlon allow, as a final resort, for the competition to be held in a duathlon format,” a Paris 2024 spokesperson told Reuters in French. Global News did not a get a response from Paris 2024 about the Seine’s safety and the backup plan by the time of publication.Habash said it’s not unusual for sporting bodies to test the water quality ahead of a competition to make sure it’s deemed safe for swimming.
Recent heavy rain, which was more than usual for this time of the year, has been a big cause of the elevated numbers of E.coli and enterococci, Habash said. “The concern for swimmers is that as they’re breathing, they can certainly get some water in their mouth and swallow enough potentially to get a large enough dose to get sick,” he said.Gastrointestinal infections could cause an upset stomach, vomiting and diarrhea, Habash said. There is also a risk of infecting the ears and respiratory tract, he added.
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