Paris Reopens Seine for Swimming—Then Closes It the Next Day TEC News July 7, 2025 Rainfall raised bacterial levels, triggering an automatic suspension of access under safety rules.
Olympic Triathletes Get Sick After Swim in the Seine Hélène de Lauzun August 5, 2024 Two suffer gastric problems following swimming competition and are forced to withdraw.
Triathletes Denounce Being Forced to Swim in the Seine Hélène de Lauzun August 1, 2024 “No thought has been given to the health of the athletes. If they had thought about the health of the athletes, it wouldn’t have been done here.”
Olympic Games: Seine River Still Too Filthy To Host Swimming Events Hélène de Lauzun July 30, 2024 Despite huge expense, the river remains unswimmable.
€1.4 Billion Down the Drain: Paris Spends Big To Make Seine Swimmable Hélène de Lauzun July 22, 2024 Even environmentalists are wondering if the project is pointless.
Olympic Games: The Impossible Swim in the Seine Hélène de Lauzun August 28, 2023 The Parisian Olympic organisers are so confident that they have no plan B in case the water quality tests are still bad at the time of the Games.
Parisian Olympics, Minus the ‘Paris’ Part Hélène de Lauzun August 5, 2023 Book sellers have no “intention of moving.” Their representative points to the absurdity of doing away with the bookshops during the Games: “We’re a major symbol of Paris, we’ve been here for 450 years.”
