Submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
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.
Archived version: archive.ph/vCwp1
Tons of people saw this coming and warned about it, but the opinion of rich and powerful people is the ultimate law.
Well, that’s shitty.
Craptastic too.
The actual level they found in the river was 436 units per 100 millilitres. This is definitely the right call.
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 have been consistently this bad, and they’re just now doing something about it.
But she announced when, so everyone shit in the river in the lead up apparently.
There's no spite like French spite 😂
All that would prove is that she is a idiot.
Sounds like the same quality benchmark for Stella Artois.
HEY!!!
This should be tagged NSFW: No Safe French Water
there goes the millions wasted on poor pr
Didn’t Victor Hugo wrote about how disgusting the Seine was?
They never cleaned it up?
_sideffect@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just fucking swim indoors for fucks sake
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Or find another river or lake nearby that isn’t treated like an open sewer.
mkwt@lemmy.world 3 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@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They can easily replicate all conditions indoors