Olympics: Fears for Seine water quality as second day of triathlon training cancelled • FRANCE 24
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Olympic organisers cancelled a second day of triathlon training in the River Seine planned for Monday after weekend downpours in Paris polluted the waterway, but said they were "confident" the medal events would be held this week.
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The river is basically a sewer. Why would you swim in it?
Look at all those boats… thay didn’t even test for chemicals. 😮
Maybe they'll get superpowers like the Ninja Turtles. 🐢
@@boardcertifiableor double pink eye and they become Homelander
Been a sewer since 1900
When there is heavy rain for days ALL rivers become sewers.
They threw 1.2 billion dollars literally down the drain. Still a hard no for me. So gross.
With a view towards the Olympics perhaps, but if this contributes to a longterm improvement of water quality in the Seine then that project was going to be done in any case and it was always going to cost money to do so.
They should have use that money to provide athletes with proper beds and aircon instead
why the hell would they ever consider letting people get into that river when they know there is sewage seeping into it daily ... are they insane and the Olympic comity is it insane to agree to this. Why would anyone for any reason go swimming in a sewer....knowingly .... that is really crazy nuts.
i mean they already gave the athletes cardboard beds so they clearly dont care. the atheletes get cardboard beds while the illegals get king sized 300000 thread count sheeted beds for no cost at all. YAY COMMUNISM!! ISNT IT GREAT?!?!
The Seine identifies as a clean and peaceful river...
Even if the water test passes, I wouldn't go in there just knowing sewage goes there.
the sewers doesn't go there
I mean someone can say they pass (like how the govt of Illinois said that it was still safe to live where the vinyl train exploded and it was NOT indeed safe to live there)
The sewage only can connect to the river when some home pipelines overflow because of the rain. With the heatwave the test will pass, if it passes it can only mean there is no sewage excretions
@@Assassunn Yes, I understand but still I just wouldn't risk it.
It's ok. The river identifies as safe/clean
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
Lmfao
"Aha"!
Hahahahaha 😂
It's incentive to win the race and get the heck out of the crappy water.
Problem is, after 2km in the Seine. Athletes have to cycle 180km and do a marathon.
So getting them into filthy sewage water is insane.
@@barneyklingenberg4078 Bro what? The same athletes don't simultaneously compete in high-level competitive swimming, cycling AND marathon-running -- that would be ridiculous.
@@MuhammedAasil... Yes they do. How do you not know what a triathlon is?
@@barneyklingenberg4078 My apologies...
@@barneyklingenberg4078the long distance isn’t Olympic. The Olympic triathlon distance is 1,5k swim/ 40km bike and 10km run
If Chicago could clean their river Paris had absolutely no excuse except incompetence and idiocy spanning centuries
nah they probably applied DEI into it thats why the clean up is such a failure
Exactly! Well said.
I think you mean "incompetence" ?
They were busy preparing for mocking the last supper
Copenhagen cleaned up its harbor area and there are several swimming areas which are very popular
Its odd that before the Olympics, this wasn't a big concern. Let's have a cesspool running through our historical capital, home to millions, but then get excited when people want to do a swimming race in it. Good priorities.
They’ve been working on cleaning it up for years. Not an easy project.
Can't deny that. If there's no global attention over a problem, then there's no problem to fix.
Because it costs a lot of money, and there are other priorities.
I for one have never found the French to be funny( except Astrix ,Obelix comics) this however has had me in tears all day! Par excellence,keep it up .
@@edmerc92 they received money from the US to help pay for the costs. on top of that do you really think a nation as wealthy as france would be bankrupt from this or something lol. dont worry keep expecting the US to pay for all the worlds problems
The athletes are the ones suffering. Why did the IOC/ World Triathlon even approve of this uncertain plan? This is a farce.
Every river in every major city (London, New York, etc) is basically a sewer. Who thought having swimming events in the Seine was a great idea? Probably the same people who put together that disgraceful opening ceremony!
Come on, it was a great opening ceremony! Besides, they did actually spend years investing in cleaning the Seine before the Olympics
@@ranstuff12572 it must be subjective then. I particularly did not like it when children were being groomed to be around half naked adults. There was even a man with his privates spilljng out while sitting near a child.😅
@@maylynbayani the horror. As we all know every instance of naked human flesh must be sexual in nature.
Are you an American by any chance?
you mean in the West?
@@maylynbayani In reality, the 'privates' were actually his fishnet having a hole in them, but it was still disgusting to have a kid around whatever was happening there.
France has a beautiful, clean lake- Lake Annecy, where triathletes generally train, I wonder why did they not organise the event there.
I've been there before in 2017. It was beautiful indeed
Looking at opening ceremony they’re going for less beautiful feel …
Because it is a prestige project for the sports minister, but obviously there is a loss of reality in her head. No plan B because it must be the sh*tty Seine
What ya mean I’m tot gonna watch the swimmers after the insult to me and Christianity infuriated me this is hilarious 😹
Cancel this Olympics!
Worst Olympics Ever 🤢🤢🤢🤢
Either dump a dozen truck loads of chlorine into the river or have the swimming leg of the triathlon in the indoor pool 😂
Definitely need a backup plan.
They could do an indoor swim on a different day and combine scores with bike/run.
Look up ‘Arena games’. All the pros have raced in the World Cup indoor triathlon series. It works well and is exciting to watch. May have to give the organisers a quick call to take over the Olympic race 😂
You forgot this is a river, not a pool. The chlorine will just flow down river.
Just unsafe, unhygienic,dirty water.thats the reality
not worse than Rio, or even sunderland where every athlete was sick
It's France, what do you expect.
@@Vincelebourrinsay that again without crying
@@χσχσ-ν3χ I can say that again, it's not worse
not a lot different to the sewerage we were served at the opening ceremony.
This games have been quite embarrassing
How?
From cardboard beds,vegan food only ,no air-conditioning ,dirty water,the mockery at the opening ceremony, it's just too much.
@@MelisaAnderson-i2d I don’t see any athletes complaining.
@@jassimaltoki3580are you kidding?
@@jassimaltoki3580 well athletes from my country is complaining that they are burning up in the rooms while they were livestreaming,so I don't know what you talking about .
I did 4 years of performance swimming, I would not swim in that sewage, it looks miserable ! Hello from Romania!
Disaster of Olympic proportions...😂
Worst Olympics ever.
💯
How fitting after that opening ceremony debacle.
Which one? the one where they held an artistic portrayal of a Dionysian feast?
@@ThriftyCHNR copium
With the horsewoman?
Both are sewers.
@@ThriftyCHNR oh the one with mans balls hanging out next to a child
See what happens when you are careless about pollution but try to fix it at last minute? Like I went there a year ago and many stations and bridges smelled like urine, lots of homeless tents even at the Louvre, etc. Can't fix this problem at last minute
Carbord beds, dirty water.. They've done everything to slow down the athletes and make them unhappy and maybe sick
Don't forget, at least one team was robbed - the Aus cycling team - no AC and vegan food. After seeing clips of the opening ceremony, it's clear the devil is the details after all.
But the Drag Queens are very happy. I think these "Olympic Games" show the catastrophic current state of the West better than anything else. So much is so symbolic.
@@ytb40 nobody gives 2 fucks about Greece anymore. It's all about propaganda and how much money everybody could make out of this attention
Force vegan food
The carbord beds were already used in Tokyo because they’re durable, practical, cheap and environmental friendly
When i was in Paris back in 2016 there were litteral rafts of trash and debris in the river, not to mention the fecal matter and urine. I still remember vividly the rats coming out from their holes in the parks at night and feasting on the trash piles left in the streets.
Its wild that they thought they could clean it up in time.
2016. 8 years ago and 1.2 b invest to clean this river.
Please just read something about the parisian sewer system and how it work. Paris is 1000 year old, the sewer system has been created 300 years ago.
The river is clean, when it’s not raining to much.
This isn't a problem that can be fixed in a few months. It takes years.
They had years.
@@JohnSmith-ux3tt I read they've been trying for years. So they have put in effort.
Till now, France FAILED on all fronds. Bad preparations, worst opening ever and water quality like sewer
Not forgetting the food they served the athletes, no aircond and cardboard beds in the athlete’s room
I hope that federations will withdraw their athletes and take care of their health, it’s not safe, and they know it.
And there's an old video of a migrant washing an iron dish in the same river, and then selling food on it shortly afterwards. What a mess of an event. So many problems from the moment it started.
'come on in, the sewer is fine'....
Reminds me of when Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's drunk water from the holy river rivulet (holy in Sikhism) after a 22-year cleaning project to prove it was safe. He ended up in hospital 😂
The preacher said it washed away all my sins..😂😂😂
😂😂😂
1.2 billion flashed in Seine and i though that only in my country corruption is at the highest level...
It's not corruption, there are huge effects on water quality since decades. Ask fishermen. It was just too soon, too optimistic idea.
They can still decide to swim in the rowing pool instead of the river.
congratulation
Is could quite possibly be the worst Olympics. I choose not to watch
Use this free time to go to a library, or a museum. It will make you a bit more open-minded.
Most people saying this wouldnt have watched regardless
This is France. Maccaroon said.😅
They cannot control the pollutants that get into the water due to rain runoff. It's not just sewage polluting the water, an example of this, fertilizer and other chemicals in the soil. Rain goes into ground, ground water goes into river. Cleaning the river to be completely safe would take years. No major city in the world could achieve this any faster.
They knew more than 6 years ago that they would host the Olympics.
No way that water is safe.
I personally sat near La seine in the 1st arrondissment. I wouldnt even think about putting my foot in that.
Who won the first "Tour de France"?
The fourth panzer division
Why did they cancel it? Was the water not gay enough ?
The water refused to honor their pronouns.
I believe the water was being sexist. Apparently no women were allowed.
I've seen that water quality in 2016. If it's the same I'd quit the games
Paris, France as sanitary as India
Remember, this is where the taxes money go!
Foreigners should understand, Paris is not as beautiful as in books and movies.
I think they cleaned it up now.
Sewer water + people not accustom to local water + people must perform at top tier for multiple days = ????
"I'm confident for tomorrow's men's triathlon" sure, the water quality changes over night, so there is no need to have a plan B race with a lake or something. Prestige project vs reality
I wouldn't go in there.
My hometown river in Tianjin was like this 30 years ago. We were not dare to swim in the Hai River growing up for the river was polluted and neglected for hundreds of years. I visited there 10 years ago; I saw bunch of people swimming and the water was crystal clear. It shows that it's definitely doable.
Only the French would schedule an Olympic event in a sewer
My boyfriend has a French friend (lives in Paris) that said he wouldn’t ever even dip a toe into the Seine river… That says something. 😅
Disgusting. That river was a billion dollar dump
I remember not so long ago people were worried about walking into supermarkets without masks and now they are swimming in sewage?
India: hold my beer
India would never host such an embarrassing game, India very successfully hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2010, and might even host a good 2036 Olympics, French have created a new low in Olympics history
More like hold my Ganges water
Fake account tryna do rage bait of India 😂
More like hold my water.
Completely agree!
Reminds me of when Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's drunk water from the holy river rivulet (holy in Sikhism) after a 22-year cleaning project to prove it was safe. He ended up in hospital 😂
This is FRANCE. true face. From 1900 no swimming in River Seien but giving lecture to whole world on envoirnement. SHAME to EU & FRANCE.
Ecoli anyone…..Don’t swim in this water, ewwww health and safety first… they will not support you if you get sick.. just cancel the water part…not worth the risk.
Time management and event planning has never been France strength.. It is the German.. 😂.. Next time Germany should organize the Olympics .
Imagine spending 1.4 billions euros in the river for nothing.
Imagine how afraid the athletes must be to catch something in that water that could possibly cause them permanent damages, just because Paris/France is trying so hard to push for this.
This French Olympic is a disaster. Make fun of Japan and China when they were hosting the Olympics all you want. At least they made the Athletes feel safe and comfortable to compete. France, sry you could not have done worst than this. First making fun of a religion and a masterpiece artwork. Then messing up KOREANs? The smell near 5th and 11th is so badddd like real bad.
japan would've been great if it wasn't for covid
@@Centre14 making fun of a religion ? What are you bs-ting ?
@@art2798 ur tagging the wrong dude m8
@@art2798 No YOU r tagging the wrong dood
You are SO ignorant. First of all, the IOC made the ceremony, it's an international event.
The parody was not of the Last Supper but Feast of Dionysos, you'll Google that.
Anyway, the last supper has been parodied thousands of time, including by the Simpsons. Why? Because it ain't blaspheme, it's not a sacred fresco.
Supreme athlete swimming in an unflushed toilet there’s an image the world needs to see. Not sure how they thought this wasn’t going to be a problem, but then the IOC wasn’t the ones swimming in it.
Lol, the river was not safe for a decade, now all of a sudden it's safe? Lol
The stage was also a sewer at the opening ceremony
Just hand out big bottle of cologne to the athletes and nobody will smell anything 😂
What a joke 😂
🤢food and water not the best this time..
You expect athletes, who hv been training all their lives for these every 4 years competition to swim in a river full with Ecoli? Representing their country with pride n honor, now have to sacrifice their health because France's incompetence , idiocy and ego?
Think not😡
Everyone knows that rainwater carries very high levels of pollutants into rivers. It was a high risk move to choose a river through a large, highy-polluted city anyway, let alone other sources of effluent that probably feed into the river on a daily basis.
Few years ago they had the world angling championship on the seine,people got ill,they've never been back mmmmm?
I hope no one gets sick and if they do, hold the water tester accountable. The water looks terrible.
Why isn't the river kept clean anyway?
Why would you allow athletes to swim, let alone compete, at a water body that was BARELY safe (if it was safe at all) when you can have them swim at other bodies of water within your country that has CLEANER waters (probably in their provinces) or if there's none, on an indoor, man-made body of water?
GREED AND POLITICAL AMBITION! THAT is what drove France to BLATANTLY DISRESPECT world athletes. I would bet you that even African swimmers are being given by their own governments cleaner waters to practice and hone their skills at. And that is coming from countries where clean waters are hard to find.
Who cares about seeing France's "tourist destinations" along the River Seine? This is all just SEMANTICS! Being an athlete DEMANDS a lot of discipline. They are not there for "sighseeing". And neither does the rest of us who want to ensure that OUR OWN HIGHLY RESPECTED ATHLETES are safe.
Allowing this INSULT on our HIGHLY REGARDED athletes is not something we would tolerate from the French Government. The river is NOT CLEAN! Having the river BARELY MAKE the standard ppm is NOT the definition of "safe". Though it is the definition of politicians who don't give a f*** about human health and safety.
CRYSTAL CLEAR WATERS where it is so clean, you can see the rocks at the bottom THAT is the definition of CLEAN! Not some murky water that doesn't smell which serves as a sewer dump from the local creeks. You do not need scientists for you to realize that!
Green energy
Green waters
Fossil fuels did not cause crap in the water, Paris managed that by themselves.
@@snowwhite5842 👏🏻👏🏻
Who made them swim in that!?
Swim in Dirty water… so stupid
Covid 19 is now less severe, but still around, and in sewage it's been proven to multiply. It's a bit risky getting the athletes to swim in the Seine.
What trainings do they need, haven't done enough in their countries
Um.. not a good look France.
And ? Why weren't they scheduled for Nice or Marseille ? .
Basically athletes.. you were swiming in ‘passable water’..
The Olympics this year is such a mess compared to the ones we had recently. Not saying the others weren’t problematic but this takes it to another level. 🤦♂️
Yeah no. Health and safety come before events. Even the olympics. If it was too dirty for the barges before cleaning, it is no where NEAR safe to swim in. Literal sewage. This is so irresponsible.
I would have boycott swimming in the seine.
They should pray to creator for a miracle...oh wait, i forgot. They prefer mocking the creator....
Loving this. 😁 French planning as its finest.
Funny I thought it was Brexit that made poor water yet it’s in the eu too lol
Are there really no other rivers in france (clean) they could have planned this for ?
Ridiculous
They think the athletes are Andy Dufresne
They had how many years to clean it up, and they failed epically.
Everyone I know who has been there said that river smells bad.
Why would you let people swim in a desecrated river. The white man on a horse ran in that river, of course its contaminated with bacteria!
Never mind, the swimmers will swim in the Seine underturd ( undeterred )
The seine river will never be clean. The death of 300 Algerian martyrs will never go away. They were thrown into this river and now they swim inside it as if it was nothing.
The amount of things they wouldnt be testing for 😬
Aaaaandd what did I say a few days ago?!?!?! YUCK!!!! "... 5-zillion e-coli traveling worldwide discarding waste from above and beyond all dumping into a river smaller than the Ganges" (Valse Mélancolique: Historian, Newscaster, Composer, Critic, Organist, Pianist, Athlete, Transcendentalist, Clairvoyant, Chef, Martial Artists, Cyclist, Mechanic, Ancient-Astronaut Theorist, Inventor)
These Games are being a fiasco😂
There has been a law for 100 years against swimming in the river
It's utter disgusting that reach G7 country downplay the seriousness of the filthy water.
If was a so call third world country it would have been condemned for life.
Good choice all swimming competition should be done in thr rivers and lakes...then only all will make sure to keep clean.....always taking advantage of mother nature....they deserve it
the indian triathletes would easily win this now
😂comments section is gold tonight
So no diversity for water?
Terrible mistake letting Paris host the Olympics. They have stuffed up everything so far and their city is filthy.
is river SEINE water DRINKABLE ?
Atleast the athletes get to take home leptospirosis as a souvenir.😅
It's dirty at first sight.