Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday.
Contamination levels in the first eight days of June, after persistent heavy rain in Paris, showed bacteria such as E. coli and enterococci beyond limits judged safe for athletes.
The report was published by monitoring group Eau de Paris one day after a senior International Olympic Committee executive said there were “no reasons to doubt” races will go ahead as scheduled in in a historic downtown stretch of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower.
I saw a crazy Instagram video where the citizens are upset they are only trying to clean up the river for the Olympics not for the people that live there. They were trying to start a viral campaign to have everyone Sh8t in the river after the clean up is done.
Not just after the cleanup is done, but specifically right before Macron and Hidalgo swim in it as PR to prove it’s fit for olympians. Parisians are the best.
https://www.timeout.com/news/why-are-parisians-planning-to-poop-in-the-seine-061324
Hidalgo, like a moron, gave a date when she would swim. Then they announced the shit in the Seine thing, so… she announced another date.
Macron won’t announce a date. And I’m betting neither of them will ever get their toes wet anyway.
the citizens are upset they are only trying to clean up the river for the Olympics not for the people that live there
But they are trying to clean it up for the people that live there, though? I’d heard that it’s supposed to remain clean after the games and that they’ll be opening swimming areas for the general public and stuff.
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Le. Coli, in French.
My wife is pretty well-traveled and said she’d never go back to Paris, for it was one of the dirtiest cities she visited. Combine this with the bedbug pandemic they’re going through now and you literally couldn’t pay me to go.
Apparently the bedbug thing was mostly a Russian information warfare campaign.
According to Reuters, the issue is real but Russia certainly amplified the news heavily and tried to erroneously link it to Ukrainian refugees.
You didn’t even mention the other infestation that are far dirtier and more disgusting than the bedbugs… the French.
Is this the Russians again?
It’s the French, actually. Disgusted by the amount of money their goverment is spending on the Olympics, they’ve started a “shit on the seine” campaign. Some have even created a website so french who dont live on paris can calculate when to shit in their local warterways so their turds end up in the water when Macron and the mayor of paris take their publicity dunk in the Seine
That would keep them from getting eaten by the shark hiding in the catacombs
Shit River!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday.
Contamination levels in the first eight days of June, after persistent heavy rain in Paris, showed bacteria such as E. coli and enterococci beyond limits judged safe for athletes.
The report was published by monitoring group Eau de Paris one day after a senior International Olympic Committee executive said there were “no reasons to doubt” races will go ahead as scheduled in in a historic downtown stretch of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower.
Marathon swimming races over 10 kilometres for women and men are scheduled on Aug. 8 and 9, respectively, in waters that were historically polluted before a $1.5 billion US investment ahead of the Olympics
The safety of the Seine water for the Olympics has been in doubt since some test events scheduled last August were cancelled, also after unseasonal heavy rains.
Rainwater infiltrates the sewer system, and to prevent street flooding, the excess water, carrying fecal bacteria, is diverted into the Seine.
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