Swimming in the Seine in Paris: “There will be no plan B for the Olympics”. In 1990, the then mayor of Paris declared on television that he would swim in the river three years later.
Water has since flowed under the bridges of Paris. A vast swimming plan worth 1.4 billion euros has been launched to clean up the River Seine with the help of various stakeholders such as the City. Subscribe Already subscribed? To log in, click here.