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Olympics triathlete sick following swim in Seine River, team pulls out of event (abc3340.com)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why all the teams don't just refuse to take part in any event in the Seine.

[+] [email protected] -19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It is the same as any open water, or what do you base your rating on?

[+] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Except it does not continuously fail. You can check meseurements here : https://www.paris.fr/pages/meteo-de-la-seine-quelle-est-la-qualite-de-l-eau-du-fleuve-27467 Water is tested multiple time a day and we can see that water was at acceptable level the days of competition

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Apparently the article states that the river failed E. Coli testing after heavy rainfalls, with levels detected 10 times the acceptable count.

This honestly just seems like a failure of the administration to properly take care of the athletes and wanting to go ahead with "a historic river race".

They could have delayed or re-tested.

Olympics or not, they swam through a river of shit.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

It did not fail on the days of the race. A river moves, shit moves. This is open water, it has different qualities and amounts of shit in it on different days. That's how it is. If you like to swim in lakes and rivers then you have to deal with the fact that there's shit in it, just don't do it if there's too much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The results for the day of the competition were OK, but each sample testing takes around 15 hours, so the results were of the cleanliness before heavy rainfalls which caused the sewers to overflow (as they regularly do).

Just knowing about the rainfalls should have put an end to the attempt at competing in the Seine. Not doing so was pure hubris

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Which is what they exactly did. They reported the initial competition day due to weather concerns and waited until enough time passed with good conditions

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you skip every relevant piece of information before making this comment or do you really think every open body of water gives people infections?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most bathing spots take water tests and warn on bad days, so they did for the Seine. It is fine most of the days. What pieces information are you consuming? Anything but badly written rage articles?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where do you think you are right now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

In a shit filled river drowning in downvotes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look, even if that were true, then I would say the same about any open water. It's a severe health risk that no-one should be taking. Proper facilities could have been put in place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I am sorry to tell you that every lake or river has poo in it, they test e coli for bathing spots and give out warning on bad days. So they did for the Seine. There was no serve health risk on the days of race.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

#JusticeForRio

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If she got sick from the swim, she got unlucky because the bacteria levels were "very good". She probably got sick from somewhere else.

It was not E. coli that made her sick, she wrote, adding that she sought treatment at a clinic in the Olympic Village on Sunday after several days of vomiting and diarrhea “left me quite empty.”

World Triathlon said the bacteria levels last week when the individual triathlon events were held were considered “very good” and that the levels were also within acceptable limits during Monday’s triathlon mixed relay event.

source: https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-paris-seine-water-quality-triathlon-6a5bbed0ab542a45314ebb21a2ac1840

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The cleanliness test results were from samples taken before heavy rainfalls caused the sewers to overflow

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Cleanliness test were also made just before the race. The article from apnews talks about them. I could only find french newspaper talking about it but the "heavy rainfalls" seemed NOT to be a problem.

L'orage de mardi soir "n'est pas passé loin", a admis mercredi le préfet de région Marc Guillaume, mais "il n'a pas plu sur la zone d'épreuves". En cas de précipitations intenses, de l'eau non traitée peut être rejetée dans le fleuve, un phénomène que les ouvrages de rétention inaugurés juste avant les Jeux ont vocation à empêcher. (https://www.europe1.fr/sport/jo-paris-2024-la-qualite-de-leau-de-la-seine-tres-bonne-lors-des-epreuves-de-triathlon-4260748)

Tuesday evening's thunderstorm "was a close call", admitted regional prefect Marc Guillaume on Wednesday, but "it didn't rain on the event zone". In the event of heavy rainfall, untreated water can be discharged into the river, a phenomenon that the retention structures inaugurated just before the Games are designed to prevent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The French aren’t known for their hygiene so I am not surprised their river is filthy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Come to England. We used to have clean beaches and rivers. Then we had 14 years of a corrupt government that allowed (previously illegal) toxic dumping, and hey presto - the country is unswimmable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know they probably didn't have a choice, but you have to be braindead to swim in that river.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Sorry but Jolien who thinks that drinking yakult is something worth mentioning is not a reliable source in regards of rating how healthy it is to swim in the Seine. Because, to user her own words, anything else would be "bullshit"