The swimming events, scheduled for Saturday August 19 as part of the paratriathlon “test event” of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, have been canceled due to uncertainties about the water quality of the Seine, organizers announced. “Significant discrepancies and discrepancies” have been found between, on the one hand, the samples taken by a laboratory, and, on the other hand, by the high-frequency sample analyzers, which are used to monitor the river live. .
“A new meeting will be held tomorrow morning [Sunday] to determine, depending on the new data available on water quality, whether the swimming events in the Seine of the mixed relay event can be held”, jointly estimate the Paris 2024 Games Organizing Committee, World Triathlon, the City of Paris and the various state services in a press release.
As a result, the paratriathlon events were changed on Saturday to a duathlon format, namely only cycling and running. As a reminder, the open water swimming “test event” in the Seine had to be canceled two weeks ago due to a level of Escherichia coli bacteria exceeding the maximum threshold provided by World Aquatics, namely 1,000 forming units. colonies per 100 milliliters.
