The Olympic Marathon swim test has been canceled this week over concerns with the conditions of the Seine River in Paris, France. World Aquatics announced on Tuesday that they were canceling the test ...

A ship sails past reproductions of artworks decorating the banks of the River Seineat the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Paris, France. The men's Olympic triathlon has been postponed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — After days of delays and ...

PARIS, FRANCE (WITN) - Due to high levels of bacteria, before Thursday, it had been 124 years since the Seine River was legally safe to swim in. On Thursday, Paris officials said it’s “good enough” ...

Swimming in the Seine River in Paris, France, has become a popular tourist attraction since reopening last month for the first time in over a century. This follows years of promises from the city’s ...

Years of digging pipes and cisterns, and more than $1 billion, were required to make the Seine River clean enough to host the races. Two French athletes won medals. By Catherine Porter Reporting from ...

PARIS — After six years, $1.5 billion, innumerable tests, cascades of protests, political grandstanding, countless prayers and hopes, multiple delays, and a thunderstorm just hours before the start … ...

Bathing in the Seine has been banned since 1923, with promises to restore water quality going back to 1990, when then-Paris mayor Jacques Chirac — later French president — vowed to make the river safe ...

PARIS, France – After more than a century, the River Seine is reopening for swimming, offering both locals and tourists the chance to take a dip. The long-polluted waterway has been cleaned up, thanks ...

Swimming has been off-limits in the long-polluted Seine River in Paris for more than a century. So with Olympic swimming events on tap for the river, the city poured in $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros ...