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Parisians threaten to poo in River Seine to protest Olympic clean-up costs (www.standard.co.uk)
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Furious Frenchmen are threatening to turn the Seine into a sewer this Sunday in a bizarre protest against the eye-watering costs of Olympic preparations.

The movement, cheekily dubbed #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin (I'll poo in the Seine on June 23), has gained traction after Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo boasted she'd take a dip to prove the river's cleanliness.

Hidalgo, however, has now back-pedalled on her pledge, conveniently citing the hastily-called French elections as reason to postpone her plunge.

A staggering £1.2 billion has been poured into purifying the Seine for Olympic swimmers and triathletes, as the river prepares to host key events during the Games.

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With just five weeks until the Games, recent tests revealed alarming levels of two types of faecal bacteria, including E.coli, falling short of Olympic standards.

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

When I heard about the plans to clean up the Seine enough to have actual swimming events, I had to check it wasn’t an Onion article. While on paper it sounds nice - an urban river so clean you could swim in it - in practice it’s pretty much impossible to do. Not even factoring in the cost of it.

If I was an athlete, I’d skip the event if they tried to make me swim in that. There’s no vaccines and drysuits good enough to make me take that plunge. Especially not after half of Paris decides to take an actual shit in it.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorta crazy to think about. Unfortunately some of those people have been prepping for 4 years or more and it might be their only chance to be in the Olympics. They're in a bad spot.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lol thought you were going to say "...prepping for four years and it might be their only chance to shit in the Seine"

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lul, they could always just go there on vacation to shit in it.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm booking flights as we speak

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's expensive. Do you think if I shit in a box and address it to the river, the postman will dump it in for me?

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Postman: Ce n'est pas grand-chose, mais c'est un travail honnête