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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    • mkwt@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 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.

  • Beacon@fedia.io
    261·
    4 months ago

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

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    4 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.

  • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    4 months ago

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

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
    41·
    4 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·
    4 months ago

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

    They never cleaned it up?