Paris Olympics Proceeds With Triathlon Swimming Race After Postponing Due to E. Coli-Polluted Seine River

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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent UPDATE: After being postponed on Tuesday due to pollution in the Seine river, the Olympics‘s triathlon swimming competition took place on Wednesday morning.

Both the women’s and men’s races are going ahead today, ending a long saga involving daily water tests measuring levels of a faecal bacteria known as E.

coli. “Following a meeting on water quality held on 31 July at 3.30am attended by Paris 2024, representatives of World Triathlon and their Technical and Medical Delegates, Météo France, the City of Paris and the Prefecture of the Île-de-France Region involved in carrying out water quality tests, the stakeholders involved have confirmed that the women’s and the men’s triathlons will go ahead as planned on 31 July at 8am and 10.45am respectively,” read the official statement released by Paris 2024 organizers. “The results of the latest water analyses, received at 3.20am, have been assessed as compliant by World Triathlon allowing for the triathlon competitions to take place,” the statement continued.

The subject of a running joke since the release of Xavier Gens’ hit shark movie “Under Paris” on Netflix, the Seine was supposed to be clean enough for the Triathlon and Marathon competitions since the beginning the Games.