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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a swim in the Seine River on Wednesday this week in an effort to prove the "long-polluted" river was now clean enough to host swimming during this year's Olympic Games.
Earlier this year the water showed unsafe levels of E. coli bacteria, AP reported.
During her swim she was joined by swimmers from local clubs, Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet and the top government official for the Paris region, Marc Guillaume, the report says.
Hidalgo said during the swim: "The Seine is exquisite. The water is very, very good. A little cool, but not so bad.''
stanguet added: "After twenty years of doing sports in the river, I find it admirable that we are trying to clean it up."
Concerns about the Seine's flow and pollution levels continue, leading to daily water quality tests by Eau de Paris. Early June tests showed unsafe E. coli levels, but recent results have improved.
The Seine will host several open-water swimming events during the Games, including marathon swimming and the swimming legs of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/paris-mayor-defies-poop-threats-swim-seine-river-ahead-olympic-games
On a side note....
[url=https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/25/paris-police-plan-street-clean-up-ahead-of-olympic-games][/url]Quote:
Police plans to clean-up the streets of Paris ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games which will take place in the French capital.
Paris is pressing ahead with plans to stop people selling things on the streets in time for the 2024 Olympics which are to be held in the city.
The Prefect of Police for Paris, Laurent Nuñez, has promised an end to street vending before the start of the games.
"We will, of course, have completely eradicated the phenomenon of street vending, fortune-telling and other delinquent activities," he said.
https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/25/paris-police-plan-street-clean-up-ahead-of-olympic-games
[url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/03/homeless-people-removed-from-paris-before-olympics][/url]Quote:
Thousands of homeless people removed from Paris region in pre-Olympics 'social cleansing'
Thousands of homeless people have been removed from Paris and the surrounding area as part of a "clean-up" operation ahead of the Olympic Games, campaigners say.
Those moved on include asylum seekers, as well as families and children already in a precarious and vulnerable situation, the collective Le Revers de la Mdaille, which represents 90 associations, said in a report released on Monday.
Police were also cracking down on sex workers and drug addicts, removing them from their usual networks in which they could receive vital healthcare and support, it added. "The le-de-France region has been emptied of some of the people that the powers that be consider undesirable," it concluded.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/03/homeless-people-removed-from-paris-before-olympics
Proof governments can actually do something about the problems however choose not to until the need arises.....
Just like the homeless cleanup in SF before Xi came to give Newsom his marching orders going forward.
