A test run meant to allow Olympic athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns…
The women's marathon swim competition is set for Thursday, while the men are scheduled to race Friday.A test run meant to allow Olympic athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns about water quality in theWorld Aquatics made the decision to cancel the exercise at an early morning meeting, the organization said in a statement.
After two days of heavy rain in Paris, Olympic organizers had to cancel the pre-race familiarization swim for triathletes on Sunday. Under both World Aquatics and World Triathlon guidelines, “good” water quality can include up to 1,000 colony-forming units of E. coli per 100 milliliters and up to 400 colony-forming units of enterococci per 100 milliliters.
“We will of course wait to get the results of the water quality but the event will take place because there’s been a clear improvement of the weather these past few days,” she said."So I’m really proud and happy and to all those who want to continue saying it’s impossible to depollute a river, I tell them, ’Yes it’s possible, we did it.'”
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