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I don't know why all the teams don't just refuse to take part in any event in the Seine.
It is the same as any open water, or what do you base your rating on?
Except it does not continuously fail. You can check meseurements here : https://www.paris.fr/pages/meteo-de-la-seine-quelle-est-la-qualite-de-l-eau-du-fleuve-27467 Water is tested multiple time a day and we can see that water was at acceptable level the days of competition
Apparently the article states that the river failed E. Coli testing after heavy rainfalls, with levels detected 10 times the acceptable count.
This honestly just seems like a failure of the administration to properly take care of the athletes and wanting to go ahead with "a historic river race".
They could have delayed or re-tested.
Olympics or not, they swam through a river of shit.
It did not fail on the days of the race. A river moves, shit moves. This is open water, it has different qualities and amounts of shit in it on different days. That's how it is. If you like to swim in lakes and rivers then you have to deal with the fact that there's shit in it, just don't do it if there's too much.
The results for the day of the competition were OK, but each sample testing takes around 15 hours, so the results were of the cleanliness before heavy rainfalls which caused the sewers to overflow (as they regularly do).
Just knowing about the rainfalls should have put an end to the attempt at competing in the Seine. Not doing so was pure hubris
Which is what they exactly did. They reported the initial competition day due to weather concerns and waited until enough time passed with good conditions