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BBC pundit Mark Foster has put forward a bizarre theory as to why the Olympic triathlon went ahead despite water pollution concerns.Sport, he said: "I woke up in the middle of the night last night and it was raining a bit and that's not normally a good sign for pollution in the River Seine, is it, so I thought it'd be off today."Because a triathlon is not a triathlon if you take the swimming out.
"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. Escherichia coli is a bacteria that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.Shiga toxin-producing E. coli is a bacterium that can cause severe foodborne disease.
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