2023-08-20 07:35:22
There will again be no swimming in the Seine this Sunday. Like Saturday, during the paratriathlon test events and due to a lack of guarantee on the quality of the water, the swimming part had to be canceled for the mixed relay event, the start of which is scheduled for 8 a.m.
“Following a meeting on water quality which took place this morning in the presence of the three technical delegates of the race and the medical delegate of World Triathlon, Paris 2024, the City of Paris, the prefecture of the Île-de-France region involved in carrying out the water quality tests, and faced with the persistence of discrepancies in the water quality analysis results, the decision was taken jointly to switch the Mixed Relay test event to a duathlon competition ”, indicate the authorities in a joint press release, at dawn this Sunday.
Investigations still ongoing
The triathletes will thus alternate cycling and running, without diving into the Seine. “Discrepancies and discrepancies between the analyzes provided by the laboratory and the high-frequency sample analyzers were again noted in the readings taken for the test event on Sunday August 20, not offering the necessary guarantees. to the good behavior of the swim test, “continues the press release.
For the time being, the origin of these “differences” could not be established by the authorities who indicate that they are continuing their investigations. Already on Saturday, the organizers had been taken aback by the results of these analyses. “It’s a somewhat surprising result and we don’t really understand what happened,” observed Pierre Rabadan, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of sports and the Seine. The laboratory analyzes are inconsistent with the instantaneous readings taken in the river”.
Without a violent storm or rainy episode, as was the case in early August before the cancellation of the open water swimming test events, the organizers could not justify the presence in quantity of the bacterium Escherichia coli. However, the latter remain calm, one year from the Games. “We keep a good level of confidence for next year”, assured Tony Estanguet on Saturday.
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