Among all the anxieties gnawing at the organizers of the Paris Olympic Games, the quality of the water in the Seine is probably on the podium.
And the Brazilian Ana Marcela Cunha, reigning Olympic open water swimming champion, made no mistake, calling last week for a
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plan B
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in case the events could not take place in the river as planned. .
At a press conference on Wednesday, the prefect of the Île-de-France region, Marc Guillaume, made a point of recalling the
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considerable financial effort
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undertaken to make the Seine suitable for swimming: 1.4 billion euros.
Not only next summer, for the Olympic triathlon and open water swimming events (which will start from the Alexandre-III bridge), but also in the longer term, since around twenty swimming sites are supposed to open from 2025 In the region.
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