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We won our bet! The pollution has been cleaned up,
the Paris mayor told reporters after the triathlon had begun The problem is always worse when there's a heavy rainfall, because it kind of overwhelms the pipes and you also get all the runoff from the street. All that lands in the Seine,
explained Dr. Nicole Iovine, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Florida We know the sun and the heat have a very strong impact on the quality of the water,
At the beginning, it seemed to be a crazy and not very serious idea,
If I see a problem and I think it can be solved, I follow that thread,
Because of the climate breakdown, we are getting heavier rain in northern Europe than we are used to at strange times of the year,
They really should have been replaced incrementally over time,
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said Kit McConnell, the sports director at the International Olympic Committee If the priority was the health of the athletes this event would have been moved to another location a long time ago,
Belgium's Marten Van Riel wrote on World Triathlon's Instagram page It is with great joy that we received this news,
Benjamin Maze, technical director for France's triathlon federation, told Reuters It’s just very hard to manage, in large cities, the amount of human waste that we see,
said Katy Graham, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering I’m just trying to focus on what I can control,
Kirsten Kasper, an American triathlete, told NBC News on Tuesday The results of the latest water analyses, received at 3.20am, have been assessed as compliant by World Triathlon allowing for the triathlon competitions to take place,
Paris 2024 and World Triathlon said in a statement I don’t really have any words for the last two hours that we just experienced. That was every single possible adverse weather condition, you know, a high current, rain, heat, humidity, like it was just everything and the crowds,
They’re able to adapt due to this postponement, and we do believe that won’t affect their performances, just because they knew that this was a potential,
To be honest it was more about the current than the actual dirtiness of the water by the end. It was way stronger than the test event last year,
The risk of aspirating river water is much greater when engaged in a highly exertional activity like a competitive race compared to a more leisurely dip in the Seine,
If the amount of coliforms increases, that could be because significant numbers of pathogenic bacteria, like E. coli, have entered the water, making it potentially unsafe,
The city of Paris has put a great deal of effort into cleaning up the Seine,
Nicole Iovine, M.D., Ph.D., chief epidemiologist and chief quality officer at UF Health, told Fox News Digital