celeb news Olympic athlete hospitalized after swimming in France's Seine River, team withdraws

[Dula Peep]

[JonginBey]

Stay out of lakes and rivers 

[Bloodflowers.]

Swimming in crap, only in Paris

[diemoehre]

1 hour ago, bjorn said:

They don't have enough money to clean that river? wtf 

They already spent at least 1.5bil€ on it.

[Apolonio ₃₄]

Never go back to France again omg. 
 

They had ample time to clean that filthy ass river.

[VelvetCrush]

1 hour ago, Selegend said:

emarassing

imagine if this was happening in Rio 2016. 

the olympics was a success and the international media was already disgusting with us

well, anyway... 

Exactly if it was in a country outside Europe making the sport in a dirty river there would be such backlash that they would have to change the place before the event happened. But I mean Paris also literally has a Sewer Museum which prople think is super interesting for some reason 

[Taylor fanboy]

🤮🤮🤮

[Alongoria13]

Should've asked for Geneva Lake in Switzerland xx

[vuelve88]

That's a shitty situation 

[bjorn]

53 minutes ago, diemoehre said:

They already spent at least 1.5bil€ on it.

clearly not enough

[Archetype]

The water quality was technically clean enough for a while leading up to the event, but the heavy rains during opening week led to new contamination.  They postponed several times until the quality was good enough, but the tests are never going to be perfect considering how large the river is and how it kept raining.

 

Also, Paris did have backup facilities for this just in case, so they could have diverted the triathlon there but chose not to.  She might be able to sue the city.  Regardless, I hope she recovers fully and the Parisian government continues to commit to improving water quality well after the Olympics end.

[Maroonx]

absolutely nasty, who would ever want to swim in the Seine... I stand with the athletes protesting this BS!