Men’s Olympic Triathlon Postponed Over Seine Water Quality Concerns
The Olympics are all about the unexpected. And for marathon swimmers and triathletes, that includes a notoriously unpredictable partner—the venue, which is typically an ocean, a lake, or, in the case of the Paris Olympics, the city’s historic river Seine.
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00:00Can you please share with us the exact numbers that you've had from the latest tests that you made on the water quality?
00:07And we know that the Sun
00:09and the heat have a very strong impact on the quality of the water and that's why we feel because we are so close this
00:15morning that we can
00:17you know, hopefully believe that tomorrow morning the water quality will be better. I mean we're living in the 21st century where unfortunately
00:25there are far more
00:28meteorological events that happen that are beyond the control of the organizers.
00:32We've seen in previous editions of triathlon competitions
00:36that some of the events have been moved to duathlon because you know, it's complex at the moment.
00:43We've seen that we go from you know, a heavy rain to
00:47extreme heat like today in very few days.
00:50So it's actually hard to control how it can affect the quality of a river.