sebastien1214 Posted July 17, 2024 Report Posted July 17, 2024 The German ambassador in France also took a swim : Quote
StefanMUC Posted July 17, 2024 Report Posted July 17, 2024 1 hour ago, sebastien1214 said: The German ambassador in France also took a swim : Probably testing for the German team that has some serious medal hopes in the open water and triathlon events. Quote
TorchbearerSydney Posted July 17, 2024 Report Posted July 17, 2024 She was just going through the motions... 1 Quote
Sir Rols Posted July 17, 2024 Report Posted July 17, 2024 And ITG, right on cue after the swim, now look skyward… Report warns of air pollution in the Paris Olympic Village Quote
FYI Posted July 18, 2024 Report Posted July 18, 2024 Please, if Beijing's air quality issues weren't detrimental, then neither will Paris'. Quote
Sir Rols Posted July 18, 2024 Report Posted July 18, 2024 9 minutes ago, FYI said: Please, if Beijing's air quality issues weren't detrimental, then neither will Paris'. May 2008 Oh, the memories… Quote
Sir Rols Posted July 21, 2024 Report Posted July 21, 2024 Manu still plans to vie for the “Hot Bods” thread! Paris 2024: Macron promises to swim in Seine, but 'not necessarily' before Olympics Quote
sebastien1214 Posted July 21, 2024 Report Posted July 21, 2024 11 hours ago, Sir Rols said: Manu still plans to vie for the “Hot Bods” thread! Paris 2024: Macron promises to swim in Seine, but 'not necessarily' before Olympics At the risk of disappointing you, in French, "I'm going to swim but not necessarily before the Olympics" means in reality "I won't swim" Quote
Sir Rols Posted July 30, 2024 Report Posted July 30, 2024 Men's triathlon officially postponed due to River Seine water contamination Quote
AustralianFan Posted July 30, 2024 Report Posted July 30, 2024 2 hours ago, Sir Rols said: Men's triathlon officially postponed due to River Seine water contamination Yes this is turning into a PR nightmare for Paris organisers. This closeup of the brown icky colour of the Seine water at the Triathlon starting area just in from ABC News Australia: Quote
Rob2012 Posted July 30, 2024 Report Posted July 30, 2024 (edited) Arrogance. They absolutely should've had a Plan B for this. If it was looking 50/50 a month out (which it was from the test events) then you revert to Plan B or keep both options completely open. You don't say during the Games - "sorry triathletes, it rained a bit, guess you're screwed". And the political line is easy too - "we've done a great job cleaning the Seine up to this point with our amazing Olympics acting as a catalyst to finally do this, and we will finish the job, but we couldn't do quite enough it in time for this triathlon which will instead be at xyz location" Edited July 30, 2024 by Rob2012 Quote
sebastien1214 Posted July 30, 2024 Report Posted July 30, 2024 There will be thunderstorms tonight in the Paris region. Unless a miracle happens, you can forget about plan A of the triathlon in the Seine. So we'll move on to a duathlon. The worst part is that before the opening ceremony, the Seine had really become clean again; this is proof that it's the bad weather that's messing everything up. We can control a lot of things, but the weather is much more complicated. Quote
Bear Posted July 31, 2024 Report Posted July 31, 2024 it will go ahead https://press.paris2024.org/news/communique-world-triathlon-et-paris-2024-31-juillet-2024-8a7c0-7578a.html "The results of the latest water analyses, received at 3.20am, have been assessed as compliant by World Triathlon allowing for the triathlon competitions to take place." 1 Quote
Bear Posted July 31, 2024 Report Posted July 31, 2024 oh my god it's happening the athletes are actually in the seine as we speak Quote
Sir Rols Posted July 31, 2024 Report Posted July 31, 2024 18 minutes ago, Bear said: oh my god it's happening the athletes are actually in the seine as we speak Damn, just as I’m rewatching the opening (and actually enjoying it a LOT more than I did live). I’ll have to catch the replay after. Quote
AustralianFan Posted July 31, 2024 Report Posted July 31, 2024 18 minutes ago, Bear said: oh my god it's happening the athletes are actually in the seine as we speak Omg, yes you’re right. The water might be “safe” but it doesn’t look good. Still an icky brown colour Quote
baron-pierreIV Posted July 31, 2024 Author Report Posted July 31, 2024 Where's all the Evian spring water??? Quote
Bear Posted July 31, 2024 Report Posted July 31, 2024 8 minutes ago, AustralianFan said: Omg, yes you’re right. The water might be “safe” but it doesn’t look good. Still an icky brown colour it's raining too which is not exactly ideal if you want to keep the quality clean 1 Quote
Sir Rols Posted July 31, 2024 Report Posted July 31, 2024 I was just going to say it always seems to rain as soon as they do anything on the Seine Quote
baron-pierreIV Posted July 31, 2024 Author Report Posted July 31, 2024 /\/\ I walked that bridge with my host last time I was in Paris in 2010. Have a few photos somewhere. 1 Quote
AustralianFan Posted July 31, 2024 Report Posted July 31, 2024 The current in the Seine this morning was also very very strong and the athletes battling away at times seemed to not be moving at all, just swimming on the spot Quote
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