This is the second straight day the swimming portion of an Olympic triathlon training session is canceled due to the water.
Concerns about the water quality in the Seine River led officials to partially call off of an Olympic triathlon training session for a second day.The men's triathlon at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has been postponed after tests carried out in the Seine "revealed water quality levels that did not provide sufficient guarantees to allow the event to be held," officials said.
"Unfortunately, meteorological events beyond our control, such as the rain which fell over Paris on 26 and 27 July, can alter water quality and compel us to reschedule the event for health reasons," Olympic officials said in a statement early Tuesday morning. "Despite the improvement of water quality levels over the last hours, the readings at some points of the swim course are still above the acceptable limits.
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, swam in the Seine on July 17 in a showcase intended to show how clean the river was for the outdoor swimming events at the Olympics, even after the Seine's water quality remained questionable and had repeatedly failed tests in advance of the 33rd Olympiad. Even that swim had been postponed from when it was originally scheduled to take place in June but river samples at the time were deemed to be too unhealthy for her to swim in.
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