The 2024 Paris Olympics swimming competition begins on Saturday, July 27, 2024 (7/27/24) in Paris, France.
Katie Ledecky gets ready for the Women's 800 freestyle finals Saturday, June 22, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis.Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Heats:Men’s 400m Freestyle Final Medal event:Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final Medal event:less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in?
But a few spells of heavy rain could push E. coli levels beyond the limit of 900 colony-forming units per 100 milliliters that the World Triathlon Federation has determined as safe for competitions. “It’s not very common, but it has happened a few times,” said Ollala Cernuda, head of communications at World Triathlon, an international body for the sport, about the possibility of the swim portion being cancelled.But organizers remain optimistic that drier, sunnier weather than what the French capital experienced in June will allow the events to go as planned — buffeted by the infrastructure upgrades. The sun’s ultraviolet rays kill bacteria like E. coli in water.
With the Games approaching, the feverish debate over the cleanliness of the Seine River has become a source of frustration for some athletes like Léonie Périault, a French triathlete who won a bronze medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Angelescu said it’s hard to predict, using previous years’ data, what might happen later this month — since the water storage basin and other infrastructure were not operational until a few months ago.
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