Paris Olympics: Seine faecal bacteria levels force new cancellation
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The level of faecal bacteria in the Seine was above the World Aquatics standards of 400 colony-forming units of enterococci per 100 millilitres. The women's marathon swim competition is set for Thursday, while the men are scheduled to race Friday.

The level of faecal bacteria in the Seine was above the World Aquatics standards of 400 colony-forming units of enterococci per 100 millilitres. The women’s marathon swim competition is set for Thursday, while the men are scheduled to race Friday.

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  • _sideffect
    361·
    2 months ago

    Just fucking swim indoors for fucks sake

    • reddig33
      250·
      2 months ago

      Or find another river or lake nearby that isn’t treated like an open sewer.

    • mkwt
      90·
      2 months ago

      That would make any potential world record not comparable with previous iterations of the event.

      I’m more familiar with running marathon, where there are specific criteria that a course has to meet to be eligible for world record consideration. Along these, course must be generally on roads, and the finish line must be within a certain close distance of the start to mitigate wind effects.

      • _sideffect
        15·
        2 months ago

        They can easily replicate all conditions indoors

  • Beacon
    271·
    2 months ago

    Tons of people saw this coming and warned about it, but the opinion of rich and powerful people is the ultimate law.

  • dittyEnglish
    220·
    2 months ago

    The actual level they found in the river was 436 units per 100 millilitres. This is definitely the right call.

  • givesomefucksEnglish
    200·
    2 months ago2 months ago

    Before this happened the mayor of Paris said she’d swim in it to prove it’s safe…

    But she announced when, so everyone shit in the river in the lead up apparently. The levels were ridiculously high so she postponed and did it on a random day.

    So I wonder if with the Olympics going on, people have just started doing it again. Or if the levels are just that close to the line they can go over at any moment.

    • subignition
      110·
      2 months ago

      But she announced when, so everyone shit in the river in the lead up apparently.

      There’s no spite like French spite 😂

  • PhobosAnomaly
    161·
    2 months ago

    Sounds like the same quality benchmark for Stella Artois.

  • Linkerbaan
    41·
    2 months ago2 months ago

    above 400 colony-forming units of enterococci per 100 millilitres

    You can take the French out of the colonies but you can’t take the colonies out of France.

  • TwinTusksEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    Didn’t Victor Hugo wrote about how disgusting the Seine was?

    They never cleaned it up?