Olympic open water swimmers trained in the long-polluted Seine River on Wednesday after Paris organizers determined it was safe to dive in.
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00:00There is absolutely no athlete who would have been sick because he would have swam in the pool or because he would have withdrawn from the competition because he would have swam in the pool.
00:09These are fake news, it has been demonstrated.
00:11Moreover, the national olympic committees themselves have reestablished the truth.
00:17Let's stop, I say it very clearly, to pay attention and to make these fake news, which are destroying everything, the trust between people, the links between everyone,
00:30that these fake news continue to spread while they are denied.
00:34The Seine is polluted and we are very proud and very happy about that.
00:38Then on the trials, yesterday morning we held the mixed triathlon trials, it was great.
00:46We held the men's and women's triathlon trials last week and it was great.
00:53And tomorrow, of course, we will wait for the results of the measurements because on the marathon in free water, it is 10 km.
01:04So there, the athletes spend more time in the Seine, so there are measures of a slightly different nature that are made.
01:10We will obviously wait for the results on the quality of the water to be given, but this test will hold because there has been a very clear improvement for a few days, thanks in particular to the weather conditions.
01:26So there, I am very proud and very happy and to all those who want to continue to say that it is not possible to pollute a river, I say to them, yes, we have done it.