The president of Paris 2024 Olympic Games Organizing Committee, Tony Estanguetis confident this Wednesday that the exams can be held Plan to swim in the Seine Riverdespite the fact that the current state of health of the waters is not ideal.
“We are very confident in how the river is becoming less polluted,” Estanguet said in brief remarks after a press conference about the state of preparations with 100 days left before the start of the Games, which begin on April 26.
Estanguet emphasized that, in any case, they have “a contingency plan for all competitionsand this is also the case of triathlon and long-distance swimming”, the two competitions that will take place on the Seine.
This week, the NGO Surfrider Foundation released the results of several tests on samples taken over several months, which indicated that the water had “alarming” levels of contamination by various bacteria, such as E.coliabove a level that makes the bathroom unsafe.
Estanguet was “surprised” that this NGO took the samples months ago, in the middle of winter, when people are not expected to bathe in the river.
The authorities indicated that the results of the Surfrider are normal, because some of the infrastructure planned to improve the quality of the waters of the Seine are not yet operational, and some of them will do so in June.
“The goal is to be able to swim in the summer and everything possible is being done to make it a reality next summer”Estanguet insisted.
Source: La Verdad
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