JemmyOlympics triathlete sick following swim in Seine River, team pulls out of event
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I don't know why all the teams don't just refuse to take part in any event in the Seine.
It is the same as any open water, or what do you base your rating on?
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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
The results for the day of the competition were OK, but each sample testing takes around 15 hours, so the results were of the cleanliness *before* heavy rainfalls which caused the sewers to overflow (as they regularly do).
Just knowing about the rainfalls should have put an end to the attempt at competing in the Seine. Not doing so was pure hubris
Which is what they exactly did. They reported the initial competition day due to weather concerns and waited until enough time passed with good conditions
Apparently the article states that the river failed E. Coli testing after heavy rainfalls, with levels detected 10 times the acceptable count.
This honestly just seems like a failure of the administration to properly take care of the athletes and wanting to go ahead with "a historic river race".
They could have delayed or re-tested.
Olympics or not, they swam through a river of shit.
It did not fail on the days of the race. A river moves, shit moves. This is open water, it has different qualities and amounts of shit in it on different days. That's how it is. If you like to swim in lakes and rivers then you have to deal with the fact that there's shit in it, just don't do it if there's too much.
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?
Where do you think you are right now?
In a shit filled river drowning in downvotes
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.
I am sorry to tell you that every lake or river has poo in it, they test e coli for bathing spots and give out warning on bad days. So they did for the Seine. There was no serve health risk on the days of race.
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If she got sick from the swim, she got unlucky because the bacteria levels were "very good". She probably got sick from somewhere else.
source: https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-paris-seine-water-quality-triathlon-6a5bbed0ab542a45314ebb21a2ac1840
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.
The French aren’t known for their hygiene so I am not surprised their river is filthy
Come to England. We used to have clean beaches and rivers. Then we had 14 years of a corrupt government that allowed (previously illegal) toxic dumping, and hey presto - the country is unswimmable.
Sorry but Jolien who thinks that drinking yakult is something worth mentioning is not a reliable source in regards of rating how healthy it is to swim in the Seine. Because, to user her own words, anything else would be "bullshit"