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# Paris Deputy Mayor Claims Seine River Water Quality 'Really Good' as Olympic Triathlon Swims Go Ahead

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## Video: Paris Deputy Mayor Claims Seine River Water Quality 'Really Good' as Olympic Triathlon Swims Go Ahead

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_Published 2024-07-31. American triathlete Seth Rider wants everyone to know: his comments that went viral this week were a joke.  The water quality of the Seine, where the swimming leg of both the women’s and men’s triathlon was held on Wednesday, has been a persistent concern for Paris 2024 organizers, athletes, and the world._


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### Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo Fulfills Promise to Swim in the Seine Ahead of the Olympics

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## Transcript

Quality of wather was really good, down the limit really upper limit. And what it rain this morning has no consequences because we have no rejection in Paris. And if we have some rejections are far away from Paris, and the time to go in Paris is probably several hours, so there's no consequences, and we know that the quality of water was good enough this morning because the results are really much better and better in the last Friday or Saturday. I have no that information. I just read that. We used F Jon last year on the test even. We saw that the connection between their result and the reality was no good.

So we decided to stop working with them. And we work with another society calling Ciminder, and would do exactly the same. And we are more closer than the reality. And the fact of a scientist result we have and the process we get. So all the conditions were unified and the process was done, the international federation take the decision to swim, and we know that the quality was good enough for run, and I think athletes have no complain. They do a wonderful performance. So no worry, I know when we succeed for something, we have to find a bide way, but it's just a success, just be happy with that and enjoy the moment.

It was very difficult the last two years trying to explain the works we did and the result, the facts we will have. But today we are at that point, and we are really happy to see the competition on women and men in the place where we want that competition in iconic venue of P x tres, and The best was exceptional for French results as a gold medal for asanbur, and the Bronze won for Leu Berger, so it's really good and I enjoy it the moment.

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