The Seine still polluted, the test event postponed to Sunday: should we be worried one year from the Paris Olympics?

2023-08-05 09:13:36

Events that fall apart one after the other. This Friday evening, the French Swimming Federation (FFN) has just announced the postponement to Sunday of the women’s open water swimming events which were to take place this Saturday morning in the Seine. A competition organized as part of the World Cup and which should also serve as a life-size test for the Olympic events next year. This Friday morning, the training scheduled for the hundred elite swimmers – 51 female athletes and 56 men – had also been canceled.