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Paris (AFP) โ€“ The river Seine is still failing water quality tests one month before the Paris Olympics when it is scheduled to host the open-water swimming competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon, results showed Friday.

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[โ€“] teft@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I guess you'd have to be insane to swim in it.

[โ€“] towerful@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost makes you wonder if that's what the elections are for.

[โ€“] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They have elections to decide who's going to shit in the Seine?

[โ€“] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No that's all of Paris, that part is fixed.

The president promised to swim in it though, and a bad election result might just give him an excuse to 'step back'.