2023-08-20 07:37:00
Sunday’s swimming events as part of the test event for the 2024 Olympics in Paris have been canceled due to water quality.
By VD with AFP The paratriathletes’ event had already had to be canceled the day before, in order “not to endanger the health and safety of the athletes”. (Illustrative photo). © BERTRAND GUAY / AFP Published on 08/20/2023 at 07:37
There will be no swimming in the Seine on Sunday for the mixed relay triathlon test event for the Paris-2024 Olympic Games, the organizers jointly announced, the results of the analyzes of the water in the river “n’ not offering the necessary guarantees for the good performance of the swimming test”. “Faced with the persistence of discrepancies in the results of the water quality analysis, the decision was taken jointly to switch the mixed relay test event to a duathlon competition”, indicate in a joint press release the organizing committee, in particular, and the International Federation, World Triathlon, which had already opted for the same solution, namely only cycling and running, for the para-triathlon test event the day before.
Less than a year from the Olympic deadline, this is the third test event disturbed by the quality of the water of the river in two weeks: at the beginning of the month, that of swimming in open water had been canceled.
“No solution for moving the event”
In question then, like Saturday in the case of the para-triathlon, the concentration of Escherichia Coli bacteria (E. coli). “The laboratory sample had a slightly higher rate” than the level allowed by the regulations of World Triathlon, said Saturday the sports deputy of the town hall of Paris, Pierre Rabadan during a press point. “It was slightly above 1,000 (UFC for 100 ml)”, he further explained In any case, no question of plan B in a year for the Games, repeated Tony Estanguet on Saturday: “It there is no solution for moving the event. The triathlon and open water swimming will take place in the Seine next year”.
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