Anne Hidalgo donned a wet suit and took a dip in the center of the city.
The Mayor of Paris took a bold plunge into the Seine River Wednesday morning—to prove it is clean enough for Olympic events.Anne Hidalgo donned a wet suit and took a dip near City Hall and Notre Dame Cathedral in the center of the city.The Seine will host several open water events during The Games, including marathon swimming and the aquatic legs of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons.
The swim sparked AI-generated social media memes showing both Hidalgo and French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who swam in the river on Saturday in a full-body suit, as both Dobby from Harry Potter and Gollum from Lord of the Rings.President Emmanuel Macron had also promised to take a dip in the Seine—but he is currently up to his neck in a political crisis, since his decision last month to call snap parliamentary elections.Since 2015, organizers have invested heavily—$1.
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