as promised, Anne Hidalgo bathed in the Seine before the Olympic games

2024-07-17 16:15:18

HISTORY – Barring any weather hazards, the challenge of making the Parisian river swimable for open water swimming events will be met.

« In three years, I will swim in the Seine, in front of witnesses, to show that it has become a clean river. » A bold promise was made in 1990 by Jacques Chirac when he was mayor of Paris. We had to wait for twenty-four years to see one of these successors drowned in the river of the capital, after a hundred and ten years of prohibition. The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday morning, near the Government Hall. Press from all over the world gathered on the quay for the occasion. Sunny, water is 20 ° C.

« A little cold but not too much » : Anne Hidalgo, in a short skirt and dark glasses, shines. After immortalizing the moment on a small platform, and on the ladder, he launched into the water – less brown than recently – and crawled back to the pontoon installed a few dozen meters further on. The president of the Olympic Committee, Tony Estanguet, and the regional manager, Marc Guillaume, accompanied him.

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