If the occasion proved that Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo is a good sport and a mayor of her word, it also represented the achievement of an extraordinarily ambitious project years in the making, ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The weather in Paris – sunny and warm, with a light breeze – could not have been more perfect for a swim. Until yesterday, a dip in the Seine would have seemed unfathomable – but a little before 10am, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, made good on her pledge to take the plunge ahead of the Summer Olympics .
4 billion, mainly to improve the city’s sewer system, which becomes inundated when there are storms. Elsewhere, according to reporting by The New York Times, the project involved replacing the pipes of 20,000 homeowners, house by house. Hosting the Olympics for the first time since 1924 proved the ultimate incentive, Hidalgo insisted: the idea was for certain aquatic sports – namely, the triathlon and distance-swimming events – to use the river as a venue.
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