Sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra began to sink, or rather, into the river – Libération

2024-07-13 06:23:01

Showing kindness to Mayor Anne Hidalgo, and before the government blew up, a member of the government took water this Saturday, July 13 in the morning in Paris. A good sign for the state of zero less than two weeks before the start of the game.

We would have seen more great waters, but this was a powerful symbolic gesture. The Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, bathed in the Seine this Saturday, July 13, thirteen days before the start of the Paris Olympics.

As shown in the video broadcast by BFMTV, the former tennis player, who is obviously more comfortable on clay, lost his entry into the river by slipping on the wet rocks. After that, he put on a mourning dress and a hat, and set off to swim in the water among the ships, manatees and other carnivorous sharks. The minister was accompanied by the brand new member of the French Paralympic team, paratriathlete Alexis Hanquinquant.

Before Amélie Oudéa-Castéra went into the water, she was very happy RMC : “The thought that drew me was all the work that the state and local services have done in the last four years. We said we would be ready and we are. It is really great to say that as a legacy, all residents of Ile-de-France, French people and people from all over the world will benefit from this. “

The truth is that this is a big warning for Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, when the government of Attal is in the hot seat, the mayor of the city, Anne Hidalgo, must swim there next week. According to the joint committee of this event, the meeting is scheduled for the morning of the 17th, on the side of Marie, not far from the City Hall.

After huge investments in recent months, the authorities announced the positive results of the water analysis on Friday, while it rained in the host city of the Games. Weather, whose influence on water quality is important, is also not there for summer.

Or one of his assumptions, the flow rate, which has increased around 550 m³/s, compared to 450 the day before, while it is normally between 100 and 150 m³/s in summer. On the other hand, the zero content of E.Coli bacteria, one of the two measured to authorize or not clean, is getting into further question.

Between July 3 and 9, the sampling point on the Alexandre-III Bridge, the Olympic site, only exceeded the standard of 1,000 colony-forming units (CFU)/100 ml on Thursday 3. Other sampling points were sent on five of the seven days seven. in green for Grenelle and Bercy, and six for Marie apa.

With a payment “three times higher” usually in winter, “80% of the analysis” in “in accordance with the thresholds of the European directive”say the organizers of the Olympic Games in this bulletin.

New strategy C

The Paris city hall, by the vice president for the Olympics and the Seine Pierre Rabadan, expressed a measured confidence behind these good results. “I’m not telling you that we are very worried because of the weather, but we are not worried about our ability to win competitions until today”said the former rugby player on RFI. “With corrections, if necessary,” he added, however, a week after the presentation of the C program that included the transfer of the marathon swimming event to Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne).

Plan B is to postpone the triathlon events (July 30 and 31, August 5), the marathon (August 8 and 9) and the paratriathlon (September 1 and 2) for a few days in case of bad weather. bad.

In the event of heavy precipitation, untreated water – a mixture of rain and waste water – can be released into the river, a phenomenon that the delay units are launched before the games are decided to avoid.