How Dangerous Is the Seine for Olympic Athletes? ...Middle East

The Olympics are all about the unexpected. And for marathon swimmers and triathletes, that includes a notoriously unpredictable partner—the venue, which is typically an ocean, a lake or, in the case of the Paris Olympics, the city’s historic river Seine. As iconic as the Seine is, with its picturesque vantage points of city landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Musee d’Orsay, it’s also a contaminated body of water. There are enough risks to human health that the city has banned swimming in the Seine for more than 100 years. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But Olympic organizers wanted to change that, even temporarily, by staging the marathon swimming and swimming portion of

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