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Not safe to swim: Paris Olympics event cancelled over Seine water quality concerns
(www.euronews.com)
Just fucking swim indoors for fucks sake
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
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Or find another river or lake nearby that isn’t treated like an open sewer.
That would make any potential world record not comparable with previous iterations of the event.
I'm more familiar with running marathon, where there are specific criteria that a course has to meet to be eligible for world record consideration. Along these, course must be generally on roads, and the finish line must be within a certain close distance of the start to mitigate wind effects.
They can easily replicate all conditions indoors
Tons of people saw this coming and warned about it, but the opinion of rich and powerful people is the ultimate law.
Well, that's shitty.
Craptastic too.
Before this happened the mayor of Paris said she'd swim in it to prove it's safe...
But she announced when, so everyone shit in the river in the lead up apparently. The levels were ridiculously high so she postponed and did it on a random day.
So I wonder if with the Olympics going on, people have just started doing it again. Or if the levels are just that close to the line they can go over at any moment.
But she announced when, so everyone shit in the river in the lead up apparently.
There's no spite like French spite 😂
All that would prove is that she is an idiot.
The actual level they found in the river was 436 units per 100 millilitres. This is definitely the right call.
Sounds like the same quality benchmark for Stella Artois.
HEY!!!!!!
above 400 colony-forming units of enterococci per 100 millilitres
You can take the French out of the colonies but you can't take the colonies out of France.
Didn't Victor Hugo wrote about how disgusting the Seine was?
They never cleaned it up?