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River Seine unfit for swimming one month from Paris Olympics, tests show (www.rfi.fr)
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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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[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days 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'.

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