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After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the long-polluted Seine River on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open swimming ...
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the city’s River Seine on Wednesday in a bid to demonstrate the cleanliness of the river for the Olympics.
The mayor of Paris told French radio on Wednesday that she would swim in the city’s River Seine next week, in a bid to show its suitability for the Olympics despite ongoing cleanliness concerns ...
Other politicians have promised to clean up the Seine. Jacques Chirac, the former French president, made a similar pledge in 1988 when he was Paris mayor, but it was never realized. Hidalgo followed in the footsteps of French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who swam in the Seine on Saturday wearing a full-body suit.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and President Macron both vowed to swim in the Seine prior to the Games to prove that the extensive clean-up operation worked. A late June date for this swim was postponed; [ 133 ] the primary reason cited was the concurrent French general election but reports also circulated that protestors had planned a mass ...
Paris’ mayor told French radio on Wednesday that she would swim in the River Seine next week to show its suitability for the Olympics despite cleanliness concerns.
Mayor Hidalgo was one of the main faces behind the organization of the 2024 Paris Olympics. In a bid to demonstrate the Seine River would be clean and safe for Olympics events, she told French radio on 10 July 2024 that she would swim in the river the following week. [63]
After swimming two laps in the Seine, a 1.5-kilometer (1-mile) course, the athletes emerged from the water and ran up a set of stairs to jump on their bikes for a ride through the streets of Paris ...