Second Seine training cancelled due to water pollution

The triathletes involved will not be able to train in the Seine before the start of the event on Tuesday 30 July.

The rains that fell in Paris on Friday and Saturday, polluting the Seine, have once again forced the organizers of the Olympic Games to cancel the triathlon training in the river scheduled for Monday morning, as they did the day before. They remain “confident” They announced that the tests would be carried out on Tuesday and Wednesday very early on Monday, July 29th.

The Olympic Organising Committee, the International Triathlon Federation and the local authorities have “Decision to cancel the swimming part of the triathlon introduction” on 29 July at 8 a.m., as on the previous day, because the “The water quality (…) does not offer sufficient guarantees”they said in a statement.

The triathlon is the first Olympic event to take place in the Seine, ahead of the open water swimming on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 August. The men's individual triathlon is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, before the women's individual triathlon takes place at the same time on Wednesday.

This is therefore happening without having previously explored the stretch of river swimming, starting from the Pont Alexandre-III, while the current in the Seine, swollen by the rains of the past few weeks, is three times higher than a normal summer level (more than 400 m3 per second on Monday morning, compared to 100 to 150 in normal times).

On the other hand, “Training for running and cycling competitions will take place as planned“Monday, Paris 2024 and World Triathlon are specified. The latter are”confident that the water quality will fall below the limit values ​​again before the start of the triathlon competitions on 30 July“Tuesday and that”taking into account the weather forecast for the next 36 hours“.