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River Seine reopens to swimmers in Paris after century-long ban
The River Seine in Paris has reopened publicly to swimmers for the first time since 1923 after a century-long ban. The seasonal opening of the Seine for swimming is viewed as a key legacy of the Paris 2024 Olympics, when open water swimmers and triathletes competed in its waters which were specially cleaned for the event.
First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for ...
Horrible water quality made it illegal to swim in the Seine for more than a century, but the Olympics pushed forward to hold ...
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The Seine star of the summer again in ParisThe Seine, which played a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics, again takes centre stage in the capital this summer with ...
Three sites will be able to welcome over 1,000 swimmers daily until August 31, local officials said, to the delight of the ...
The return to swimming follows a 1.4 billion euro ($1.5 billion) cleanup project tied to last year’s Olympics.
Making the famed river swimmable is one of the final big projects Anne Hidalgo will inaugurate before she leaves office next ...
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