The $1.5B Paris Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- What is in the water in Paris that is causing all the drama?
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Is the Seine River clean enough for the athletes to compete? Could the city of Paris have done more to ensure the athlete's safety during the Olympics?
As a microbiologist I can say: Maybe if all the microbial quality indicators stay under their thresholds for at least two or three days they can resume the OW events.
But also, with that levels of fecal contamination (E. Coli and Enterococcus are fecal bacteria) they should seek testing for pathogens such as Salmonella, Vibrio cholerae, etc.
@@limplung93true 🤞 usually if the waters were safe before and no other weather events come thru, usually 3 4 days is what it takes to clear up. But nonetheless a shame athletes have gotten hospitalized already due to it. That’s poor water management right there. No excuse
I wonder what happened since. Been busy, haven’t checked today recap yet.
It's not only the water that is full of s..t and stinks, so does the opening ceremonie and all the other scandals that surface in this year's Olympics 😮😮
@@jskok3280Why? IMO the opening ceremony was very entertaining and the Olympics are fun to watch.
Olympic athletes deserve so much better than this. Disgusting.
Ive been to Paris. No way I would swim in that water. National embarrassment.
Paris will now and forever more be known as a shit show
Ghetto
Solid comment.
Literally ...
@annabean3871 😁😁😁😁 wow this is quite LITERALLY true..the Greatest and most expensive Shit Show ever produced. 😁😁😁😁
Paris now is a shithole, absolutely.
That's sewage. Literal doodoo water. Best athletes in the world, swimming in dookie.
They should NOT have hosted the Olympics. The beds, the rooms, the lack of ACs, the food, the transportation, the pool, the purples, now actual, real sh*t. 👏👏
I want to get a review on what happened in China and if their Olympics handling has the same number of complaints from the organisers' points of view just to get a trend and feel on these world competitions
AC in Europe? You must be an amerimutt
And the opening ceremony
LA Olympics 2028 will be a poop and needles show too. Hope no ones gets rob.
@@Slouworker- AC works in Europe too
Imagine if all of this fiasco happened in the developing country. The Western media would have constantly reported and shamed them.
Bro, I'm brazilian. I remember in 2016 in Rio, people were saying Guanabara bay wasn't proper to swim on it.. Nigga, thousands of people swim in that shit everyday and nobody get sick.
At the end, the water was perfect and no athlete got sick.
@@jagodaszubert2404- Given how hard it is find a native in Paris, maybe they do.
@@jagodaszubert2404 Can you read? I just said it's not polluted and you're saying is polluted. You think we're stupid or indians to swim at sewage? We are not retards. Tietê river in São Paulo is polluted. Pampulha lake in my city (Belo Horizonte) is polluted. No one swims there!
Thousands of people swim in Guanabara bay everyday!
@@miguelferreira3527中国人为你送上祝福
@@jagodaszubert2404guess what they say about the French and their BO is true then....
They can send surfers on the cruise ship 9000 km away, but can't find descent venue for triathlon? Just lame...
It’s not just Triathlon and OW swimming events but also Time Trial bicycle events where a third of the women competitors crashed due to treacherous conditions and a crazy dangerous course layout. These events should take place outside the city. There are plenty of pristine lakes outside Paris to hold a triathlon or bicycle race.
Agree. Would have been better Rick management. Clearly or not so.. they wanted to make a statement with their beloved Seine river.. since opening ceremony . I think they overdid it .. but it’s easier to say that after the fact/ I’m sure during design development the idea had to feel the coolest and I also praise them for having the guts to do it. Paid the price though
Utterly incomprehensible, to have other lakes that are clean but to insist in using that polluted river, why?
French snobbery?
Just a disgrace, do they not care?
Yes the city streets seemed too flat with little embankment
@@mreconomics1125the french wanted to show how “advanced” they are.. the only thing they are advanced in is making wines and overpriced “luxury” goods
To be fair, they tried to have the bicycle race in a lake and it didn't go well.
At this point it's cheaper to build floating swimming pool on the river.
That would be cool (and cheaper)
But the officials' won't earn as much corrupt|0n money...thats honestly all I see from the Paris Olympics...every bed, meal, piece of infrastructure and clean up attempts...all a cover up for the politicians to earn a lot of money...
It does seem like a massive stretch to be racing in this river where swimming has been banned for like 100 years.
There is several areas of open water somewhere within Paris that could have been used instead?
I just think this is absolutely insane
imagine you're forced to swim in this literal shit for the pinnacle achievement of your career
then get sick from it and end up a garden plant after a terrible disease
E. coli is not the only concern. Ingesting an Amoeba could be fatal.
I live in Paris and wouldn’t allow my cat to swim in the Seine. As an American ex-pat in France, I blame the “disaster” on the usual French bureaucracy, which is led by individuals who clearly aren’t swimmers. This idiotic thinking extends to decisions about the temperature of the public pools. More often, the pools are way to cold with an excuse that they need to “save on energy.” The French are basically clueless about sports. Their top swimmers are trained by U.S. coaches, e.g., Leon Marchand.
Pools are cold because they want to keep them open. Lots of pools have been shut in Europe in the last few years as they are too expensive to run. Once they get shut they do not reopen so it’s best to have them with cold water but open.
@@houtansadeghi what’s the point, then? If it’s too cold and people don’t swim because of it, then what’s the point? The problem is that they focus on silly games like handball, badminton and other pussy sports and let the best sport offering real health benefits fall by the wayside. They should review their priorities. But they won’t…not the stupid French.
the olympics are a total waste of scarce resources. really you should have 1 maybe 2 places worldwide to host the Olympics and get it absolutely right
That’s good idea, I wonder why they don’t just keep it in Greece and just have countries/companies sponsor it to fund the events.
You forgot to mention that ppl are actively pooping in the river and throwing dog poop in the river out of spite
It's probably not spite but standard practice for some of france's diverse new imports
@JohnSmith-pn1vv some people are just nasty, but ppl are definitely doing it out spite because the government spent 1.5b on the clean up, and they would never spend that money on the people of Paris
Fingers crossed for all of them, but I don't think it is safe swimming there. They could get sick, and health is more important than any competition, olimpic or not. I hope the organisers will be responsible enough not to risk the athletes' health.
gotta feel for these athletes swimming around in a bunch of poop
Actually flushed $1.5b into the toilet
In the 70' I was a child and practicing kayak every week on the river Seine, some km after Paris. In case we swallowed water we were supposed to declare it, then we were taken to the hospital to have the stomach washed.
If this were ANY OTHER COUNTRY the outrage in the media would be incessant but this is France and there is no question that mainstream media is oh so silent ...HTYPCRITEs. So thank you for this video.
Especially if it were China.
most people are not bigots or snowflakes....so....no impact.
@@vaudou74you know I believed that when I was younger but the older I get the more I realize just how stupid the majority of people are…critical thinking sadly doesn’t exist for most 🤦♀️
1.5 billion dollar... where did the money go? Did anyone question the city Mayor?
Il y a tellement beaucoup de rivières bien propres en france. Pourquoi choisir la Seine… rien à dire 🙁
Paris water needs to be tested as much as Chinese athletes are tested for doping.
You mean it’s tested as much as the US thanos team - none. The whole world is laughing at your purple faces
Extremely poor planning not to have identified a clean back up site. Great disservice to these athletes who have worked so hard their entire lives to get there.
The Global Triathlon Network put it best when the men's race was delayed, They've put spectacle first over practicality. The athletes deserve better, especially considering the swimmers go 6 times further in the river and it's crazy currents.
They ate floating gold.
Paris 2024 will be remembered as the disastrously organised Olympics of the 21st century.
Honestly, the open water events should have been held in the English Channel, its only a two hr. drive OR since the surfing is being held in French Polynesia of all places, it would not be a stretch to have some shuttling around. I knew it was never gonna be safe. Triathlon is at least short enough where maybe a justification can be made for it but even that, they should have just used a pool. Unfortunately, not sure L.A. is gonna learn anything from this. Hopefully I am proven wrong, but to get all the way to pursue a dream and this is what you get? Sorry but this whole Olympics has been fraught.
the heavy rain this summer was a factor they could not control…in open water events and for surfers out there we all know clean waters become hazard after heavy rain da and water run off.. even in the prestige waters of hawaii that would happen after heavy rain events..
Every olympics the open water swim highlights the pollution in our waters. Not just Paris, Rio, China everywhere
$1.5B thrown in the water for a 1.5 billion dollar of game
They could use the locations where sailing or rowing took place.
100%
I swam from Alcatraz Island in the SF Bay twice (2000, 2010). The first time, I got sick for a month afterwards and the second time, I had a black gritty substance on my face. I also got a very bad eye infection from Lake Anna in VA. I am over open water swimming but it was fun while it lasted.
There will 100% be lawsuits over this.
Apart the question of water pollution/clearness why organize a thriatlon or open water marathon in a river, who train in rivers??? Are they nuts? They have dreaming locations like blue coast or north sea why do they spend a bunch of money for nothing?
Haha that’s right guys the greenest Olympics yet…
Come on that cannot be “SHIT” in the river! Just the France Olympic mascot floating on the water!
There is no poo in the water, instead there is water in the poo, and they want our best athletes to get sick with that "shit".
Insane. The sailing regatta is taking place in Marseille. And Marseille along with Nice also are hosting Olympic soccer matches. They could have easily hosted the triathlons and marathon swims in Marseille or even Nice in the beautiful Mediterranean.
Any Parisian, as I am, knows that if you fall into the Seine, you need to go to hospital immediately to get hosed down and given injections against whatever is in the river. For the Seine to be cleaned, the French government would have needed to block off the entire river from the source for several years before it would be swimmable. Why they are insisting on using the Seine is beyond my comprehension.
This is not just in Paris. The problem with Paris Olympic was that they actually bothered to test the water and inform swimmers.
In 2023 Loughborough university reported that almost all of the UK waterways are too polluted to swim in.
Fancy swimming in Venice anyone?!
They should do a long term study on these swimmers as they swim in 💩 all over the world. They may created immunity.
Now you suddenly realize that swimming in a pool with Ryan Lockte pee is not that bad.
Also, they could use rowing venue which is near the city and the competition was finished on aug 3rd, can't imagine that the organizers couldn't make the schedule for few swimming races.
Hey Fares, quick note about Tyler the Canadian triathlete. He swims at my pool so I was following him pretty closely, and he said in a Canadian interview that he thinks he threw up because of the volume of water he swallowed rather than the water quality. He was complaining that all swim he had swallowed because of the current, and this had led to him having a stomach full of water while running and cycling which he attributed to his vomiting.
They should've had a plan B especially with stuff like this where you don't know if you are going to be able to succeed in having a river that is safe for swimming
olympic elites trianed four years to swim in shit. dammmmn
They even made a movie about a shark in paris and the water being clean enough to host a swimming competition.
The shark was more believable.
Olympics should be hosted in civilized countries like China and Russia. They had no problems 😂
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Ну иди искупайся в московских реках😂
This should be a class action lawsuit
Did you saw cardboard beds? They look like a good design. Dont understand what is all the fuss all about.
The athletes should have assessed the conditions of the river themselves. If not clean, hygiene or safe, don't swim and compete in it.
why don't they set Marcell as triathlon scene just like sailing.. if there is another point of competition being set.. why not use it fo triathlon as well.
Organizer of such big event must always have a plans B in this case a second location, especially for those open environment events that cannot be controlled
Disgusting, what a joke to risk the athlete's health with that. Paris should be ashamed of themselves.
C est beurk , il y a multiples plans d’eau qui auraient pu être choisis à moindre coût ! La honte et l’entêtement 😡🤬
Does poop increase floatability? Fun fact: when the controversial Paris mayor announced she would swim in the Seine to prove everyone wrong, there was a rallying cry in France inviting anyone to shit in the Seine before she dives in it. That was only a few months ago. 😅
Macron also promise to swim there… we are still waiting 😂
Move the open water swim to the rowing venue.
Build an outdoor pool on the race course would be better use of the money and safer than swimming in the Seine. Two athletes already got sick swimming in the Seine, one got hospitalized for E. Coli and another got intestinal illnesses, could be hospitalized soon.
Rain water does not push up E.coli levels (or the other nasties they test for). Releasing untreated sewage into the river is the problem. The sewage plants are probably not properly maintained or lack capacity. We have a similar problem in SA. Spending money on sewage treatment upgrades is not sexy for politicians.
It’s not the rain water directly. Paris has mixed sewers. Rain water and sewage end up in the same system. If it rains a lot the sewers lack capacity and the waste overflows into the river. Paris did invest a lot in extra water treatment capacity but apparently it isn’t enough.
It’s a good thing that the city invested in cleaning the river. The water quality did increase significantly. But it is a complete disgrace that professional athletes, who trained for years, don’t get the training they deserve or end up being sick.
Why do the swimming in the River whereas there are plenty of beaches in France
Now we know the athletes are the least important part component of the Olympic Games
It was an admirable goal to get the river clean enough to swim in, but it was way too ambitious to achieve in such a short period of time. They should have at the very least had a back up plan rather than make those athletes swim in that disgusting water and cancel events that these athletes trained 4 years for just to be told “no.”
I believe France has got some beautiful lakes to organise open water swimming?
They are Swimming in Shit simple I have never seen water so putrid an absolute disgrace to let anyone near that water let alone Swim in it.
Not safe!
Ewwwww.. that water looks disgusting
Plot twist. A new pandemic starts from those events
Have a backup venue
Noble effort by the French, but it was ultimately an expensive failure.
nice trolling , france 💯
Athletes compete swimming in the poo river. Disgusting!!!
Would love to see Olympic athletes swimming in the Ganges River 🇮🇳someday.🤤
What a shame
Why not hold the olympics only in Greece where it all started, countries will just contribute financially and logistically
Gross!! Not safe!
What a national embarrassment! What happened to Paris???!!!! France get it together.
Paris is no longer the home of Parisians. I'm surprised that they held it together to organize anything.
But they're so.. diverse!
whose bright idea was it to have the Olympics in Paris? lol
You're spreading misinformation, please be more thorough in your research...
Paris 2024 = Shit show
The legacy of macron.
Wow shame shame shame! Just kidding, at least they tried I guess. That amount of money dumped into the task and still not enough. Just wow.
In the same olympic, you can fact check, in other races, swimmers occur similar face colour, these includes:
-- women 200m butterfly final, Gold medalist, Canada, Summer Mcintosh.
-- women 200m breaststroke final, Silver medalist, South Africa, Tajana Smith
-- women 100m backstroke final, Gold medalsit, Britain, Laylee Mckeon.
-- women 100m butterfly final, Silver medalist, Germany, Abgelina Koehler
-- women 100m freestyle semi final, not only one swimmer
-- 4 x 100m freestyle relay, Sweden, whole team
-- China Zhang Yufei, after 50m freestlye and 200m butterfly.
-- men breaststroke 100m final, Britain, Adam Peaty
-- men 1500m freestyle final, bronze medalist, Ireland, Daniel Wiffen, and the last one, France, Damien Joly
-- women 1500m fresstyle final, Silver medalist, France, Anastasiia Kirpichinikova
If you are non-sense in swimming, you would not fact check it by offical olympic video, but not the altered colour picture.
It shows who make or agree this video, is.are nonsense and indifferent in swminning !
But the one who make the purple-face video, spread, enhance and distribute this NON-SENSE IN SWIMMING, intentionally !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This man spread NON-SENSE in swimming and hatred to U.S. swimmer intentionally !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO FACT CHECK in swimming, only regard altered color picture as a FACT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Disgusting. Paris has been a bit of a disaster for several sports.
It's been a poorly executed disaster. Once all the cheating medal winners and results get expunged from the record books it'll become the worst Olympics of all time.
France showed the world how 3rd world it actually is
Huh why is Paris doing this surfers gonna die triathloners are gonna die open swimmers gonna die why is Paris doing this
Finally Paris became the joke of Europe 😂
Some scenes remind me river in India. Sorry.
实话实说，我上个月刚去巴黎，确实有一些很不错的人，但是依旧很多情况超出了我的意料之外😂
hell nah
Discusting!!