The Seine Is So Dirty, Olympic Athletes Can't Swim In It | Insider News
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- High levels of E. coli in the Seine River postponed the 2024 Olympics Men's triathlon on July 30, even after the French government invested $1.5 billion in cleaning it.
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The Seine Is So Dirty, Olympic Athletes Can't Swim In It | Insider News
Spent all that money but nothing of the river was cleaned except the $1.5 billion.
That’s prolly very true!! And that’s sad
Good one! With figures that large, it's gotta be easy to misplace multiple millions
Corruption
Well, the money has to be laundered somewhere
Money laundering at its best :)
THE IDEA OF SWIMMING IN THE SEINE WAS THE DUMBEST IDEA EVER
And it's only been gosh-awful for ?? 100 years ?? 200 ?? MORE?!!
I bet so,e 23 year old at some consultancy came up with it ..
they just did it tho
Was a great idea for those government officials holding the purse strings. If you know what I mean.
Have you guys forgotten olympics in Tokyo... ? Yes ..? No .. ? Ah then please keep quiet and use your brain
The filth of Paris is on full display.
Guess who makes it dirty
@@amberfur5750 north Africans ofcpurse
@@amberfur5750 blacks?
USA ?? 🤔
@@amberfur5750who? 🤔🤨
Never trust anyone who treats their guests so poorly.
Well said.
I hope they never host again. This year was a disaster
I see the Olympics as a reflection of that country… and oh boy, my outlook on France is looking grim lol
LA says "hold my beer."
This will remember as the worst Olympics
Hell yes! At least they make it in the history!
France doesn’t care if it’s the worst Olympics, they just want to spread their ideology at any cost
@@far06c and they failed
😂😂😂
The worst since Germany 1940’s
1.5 billion down the drain
@@digitalsamurai42 world's most expensive toilet
That why the athletes are sleeping on cardboard beds and eating uncooked foods
That 1.5 billion would have been much better spent in my bank account. Lol.
Not down the drain. But down some peoples pockets.
Paris wasted so much money on a half-hearted effort to clean the Seine... 🤦♂
Either do a proper and permanent job on cleaning, or hold the triathlon in another location.
💯
A pool, for example.
@@mariebussinger6565Right like there's no way a whole ass full "1st world" country doesn't have a place where they have a pool nearby..Like they don't even have to build anything new they can just use their old facilities and if they wanted to they can renovate it like if they actually cared about the Olympics and were smart they would just continue using their old facilities for the pools instead of risking the poor athletes life and and almost makng them contract a diseas or infection..Like 1.5 billion is already considered low for the normal budget of the Olympics which is around 10-20 billion ish and more..but it's still a lot especially for cleaning a river like Siene and I'm damn sure they probably could've managed to clean the river for at least 500-800 million dollars at least but instead no one knows where the money went..and these countries hosting it mostly host when their in a good economic and financial situation and they can afford to build stuff like new stadiums and venues but even still it's still a lot of wasted money..France knows it's not in a good condition right now yet they still had the guts to get volunteer to host the Olympics which is the worst one as of right now... and also part of the executives tht handle the Olympics for not picking L.A instead since around 2012 around 24 countries ish volunteered but now it's only 2 France and L.A and la already hosted it before so they already built venues and stadiums and they're also still using it and making profits instead of most of the stadiums by other countries who are abandoned and is constantly taking mostly around 10 million for the maintanence..since LA already has experience and profits they would've used the old Stadiums and Venues and since it's said already have profits with the budget given to them they may be able to build new ones to accommodate too..This whole Olympics this year was just a sht show and it really proved France's declining state and incompetence and embarrassed themselves..
They tried but they just didn't have enough time, you really can't clean a river like that within a year
@@shreeshabhat9281 A year? How long do you think each city was given to host the Olympics?
Paris had attempted to improve the river's water quality for decades... The city's latest effort started in 2018, and costed over $1.5 billion.
1.4 billion was spent to clean the river and where did it go?
Macron and his buddies pockets for banquet party bills.
Down the river
DOWN THE TOILET
It went to supercars, prostitutes and cocaine. Can't confirm, but I'm fairly positive that's where it went.
@@Ascendedninja6well at least they didn’t waste the money then !
Olympics shouldn't be held in third world cities. This is what you get otherwise
Better than 4th world city like new york
@@audiofactory3058kramer triathlon ?
@@audiofactory3058 Or a 5th world city like Rio.
Failure of western civilization. Constant decay
As a kid all 3 of these places were must see. You couldn't pay me to visit these places along with London.
2 to 3 years planning and you're JUST NOW seeing the FILTH OF THE WATER,SMH.
More than that. they won the bid to host the olympics on sept 13, 2017 so they had way more than 3 years
Oops
😂😂😂
The paris Olympics are the gift that keep on giving 😂
Gonorrhea is chic in Paris
Not as poluted as the opening ceremony. Which was hell
The people that put on the events don’t care. The people in the Olympics don’t make a dime. I heard there isn’t enough meat for them because of vegan diets. What a disappointment to them that they can’t even do their best because of poor conditions. Protect the environment for the future and make us all suffer now, that’s a great plan. I don’t know what the future holds, but this isn’t helping anyone. The Olympics is such a mockery of what it was
@@Nicola-uy2clso let the world burn for some goofy aah sports competition?
Seems the Seine River is as disgusting as the French Olympic opening. That and athletes are leaving the housing area specifically designed for them to go and stay in hotels. They are running out of food and evidently, the entire Olympic Village is a complete disaster.
This should have been a consideration before France was selected.
All in all, the Games are a farce and an insult to the athletes.
So much hate against france. bisous.
@@pierre-etiennecollin8858 well - pretty awful so far -- from enforced vegan food, any meat rationed , to cardboard beds - to no swimming (how did they not know) - to olympic ceremony or starters...... not a good showing so far... and ALL self created unnecessary problems.. oh and then theres the train issues ...
@@tonyug113 Cardboard bed were introduced in 2021 Tokyo.
They did swim today, in Seine river, for Triathlon.
Don't get your point on ceremony.
You may be a puritan conservative, who knows.
We'll see what USA will offer next Olympics.
Uważam,że Ci co organizują mają sprane mózgiLudzie oderwani od rzeczywistości.@@pierre-etiennecollin8858
So...The French should never host an Olympics again..
All in favor say aye.
don't be so jalous. They finally swim in the river.
@@pierre-etiennecollin8858 france is backwards country. Except for the couuntryside which is white and homogenous. Like Correze, Limousin, etc. They are great, even thouogh they have less income on average there is zero crime because immigrants do not settle there.
and get vomitted frequently@@pierre-etiennecollin8858
Never, ever again.
Aye
The French government spent $1.5 billion on cleaning it, and it still looks filthy.
Even from an outside perspective, this is embarrassing - if the national plan to clean the landmark water site was failing before the Olympics started, why did they not have a backup venue chosen?
Wonder where all that money went🤔
They funneled that money my dear
It's like when you try to clean your house at the last minute because you have guests coming over it just doesn't work they should have figured this out years ago
You would have to be in Seine to swim in the Seine River.
😉🤣
At least there is no mutated shark down there.
The night is still young. ha ha
😂 omg
Or is there?🤨
Not that we know of
Under Paris: Poop Edition.
What a wonderfully clean country, France.
NOT lol
France is sale. Dirty in French. Sall is the pronunciation. The, water, streets (mostly Paris). Real France is far from Paris which is the NYC of France. Nantes, Lyon, Nancy, Reims, Limoges, Toulouse, Varennes, Dijon, Strasbourg, Nice, Arles are more nice to visit. Paris is dangerous, overpriced, dirty, lots of crime.
Its a 💩hole
Imagine preparing and dedicating everything for 4 years only to risk your health by jumping into a literal cesspool.
It wasn’t the rain that caused the problem
It is the attitudes, thought patterns, belief systems and actions of human beings that caused the issue.
And until humans clean and heal their inner selves, their outer world will continue to be a reflection of it
You can only clean up after someone else for so long before you stop caring.
Agree 💯
Horrible opening ceremony, followed up by letting MEN beat up women in boxing, athletes sleeping on cardboard beds and forced to eat vegan food… and now this mess, letting them swim in a large toilet. This is already arguably the worst Olympics ever.
They gave them cardboard bears to sleep with, instead of plush?,
The boxers are not transgender... you do know intersex people exist? Right? They just happen to have Y chromosomes.
Yah that's why they said MEN beating women, not transgender, "just happened to have Y chromosomes" LMAO
@@mellorin44 The reason why I assumed the OP meaning transgender is because, contrary to what you believe, they aren't men, they are women. Maybe try searching up what hyperandrogenism is.
@@mellorin44 The reason why I assumed the OP believed they are transgender is because, contrary to what you believe, they are women. Not men. And for "just happened to have Y chromosomes", yes, that happens. Search up what hyperandrogenism is.
Imagine if this happened at Rio? Or Beijing ? or any other non-west nation?
Rio is a western nation
@@IanMaekawa Says who?
@@OrbisTertiusChannel the country is located in the west, they were colonized by Portugal which is western and the culture is 100% western, Brazil is a western country and its a fact
@@IanMaekawa Angola on the west coast of Africa and former Portuguese colony? Is it also part of your western fantasy world?
@@OrbisTertiusChannel they dont have nearly as much european influence on their culture, which is the most important thing, idk why theres a misconception that western countries have to be first world countries, that doesnt have a thing to do with whether or not the country is western or nah
France is humiliating itself with this Olympic!
The river is so diverse now... They should embrace it 😂😂😂
Imagine the smell
Difficult to imagine since there ain't no smell...
That is why perfume was invented in France, they stink
The things in the water that can kill you don't necessarily have a smell. Since they couldn't actually clean the water, they are now hoping no one gets sick.
france is thirdies
There shouldn't be much of a smell. Most of it is stormwater and the sewage it is heavily diluted. They are most likely using chlorine so the smell is no where near as pungent as you would think.
The filth of the opening ceremony spilled into the river.
First the opening was demonic and now this. What a shame. Boycott France
How can such a beautiful city with an amazing history be so incredibly nasty??? That river is just beyond gross
You really don't know the answer for that!!?? Really...it's an easy answer!
Paris has been there for nearly a thousand years. That’s a lot of poop, dead animals and people, trash, waste etc
@@chapelcruz9623 nope, blows my mind. I don't understand nastiness and filth
They made high heels and perfume to avoid crap and hide the smell of it 😂😂
what did you expect?
Every big city has pollution, where do you think everyone's poop is supposed to go?
The world can be a sh'tty place
hehe
paris showed the world how dirty it was from day one
0:32 *It reminds me of the future of europe*
😆 It remind me of the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. Floating plastic bottles and other plastic trash, or foam shat, that floats everywhere there is islands. I do see your point of view and I certainly agree with your opinion also😏.
@@bigslinking ❤️❤️❤️
What a stupid idea. How disgusting for the swimmers. France has mad a mockery of the Olympics. Shame on France.
France has certainly set an all time historical standard, record and limit for the world famous Olympic Game! BRAVO!!!
👌👍👏👏👏😅😂🤣
Ohhh but the mayor said the river is super clean!
The last time I saw the Seine River on Netflix it was infested by sharks too!
Good job paris! Completely meeting expectations! 😂
I mean, yeah. It’s been filled with poo for centuries…
Missing persons, dead animals, sewage, trash, most like bodies from hundreds of years ago are in the Seine. Many guillotined bodies were thrown into the Seine. I don't think Paris is all that. It is glamorized in the movie Devil wears Prada (far cry from reality). Most prostitutes and models shave their legs. The only real good French film I like is Le Ballon Rouge filmed in 1956 in a suburb called Ménilmontant which is hilly and steep in many areas.
Singapore should host Olympics
Yeah, "heavy rain." Not the hundreds of migrants going number 1 and 2 in the river over the course of years...
One word shocker😂
France just don't have the proper funds to accommodate the athletes. 😂
It wasn't about funds. They spent $1.5 billion on a waste water storage basin. It was bad decisions. Certainly more could have been done but this is what they settled for and just crossed their fingers.
This was held by someone that is confused what is men and women. What do y’all expect?
If you couldnt clean your mind like how it was in opening ceremony, at least clean the damn river
Well, yeah. Paris is a crap hole. Why would its river be any different?
They need to stop the women boxers fighting against the male boxers… if a death or injury happens it will be on the heads of the ioc….. this is so wrong. If I was the women I would be protesting regarding to the health and safety of the boxers… stand your ground.
Thank you France for giving the World its worst Olympic Games in the History of the Olympics. Bravo. Bravo.
I don't know of any river near a major city with water that would be OK to swim in.
Perfectly said. Cities will dump their different wastes into nearby rivers.
Waste of 1.5B tax money. 😡
Disgusting they knew this before having the Olympics there. France is disgraceful
I was in Paris in 1975. Filthy then, still filthy now.
If you guys didn't know. Paris is one of the dirtiest city so how you you not expect the river is not polluted? If this in asia,western media will slams very hard against "3rd world country"
France becoming joke everywhere
It's becoming a third world country.
Poopoo river yesterday...clean swimming water today? No thanks
Wow never thought that France became the India of Europe
India of Europe? Ohh hello...given the amount France spent on cleaning that river, India would have did 2x better job that what blunder France did.
Ganges in north india is cleaner than this french crap and you should take accountability instead of comparison
If the Seine River were a girl, that girl would be Amber Heard.
Logic left the Chat
wtf is that humor
They knew this before the Olympics started.
They knew it, and they tried to clean it before the Olympics, but you can't undo something so large in a year.
In my opinion they should have done this decades ago. Disgusting river. Same with London.
Exactly.
@@GrandTerr they've been trying this for 3 decades now. Unfortunately, Paris sewer system is inevitably connected to seine especially when it rains heavily to avoid floods. So it is really impossible to fix unless they change the entire sewer system by separating gray and black water to the flood system. This will take a monumental task since the city is already full of structures.
@@GrandTerris there something wrong in london?
When you thought the Paris Olympics couldn't get any worse!
Ain’t no way. I frequent Paris for work. I was thinking about a month ago. There is no way this will be ready in time. The Seine should be clear like a river in Switzerland for people to take the plunge
Word is that India’s Ganges is cleaner than the Seine…
Ganges is very clean at its source in the Himalayas. As it leaves the mountains and gets into the plains, it's not longer pristine. In haridwar too Ganges is clean. It's when it gets to Kashi that it gets real dirty.
Don't forget that Ganges is the holiest!
It turns your shits into holy shits.
Gange is clean in North india himalyan region but in state like uttar pradesh it get's dirty
Worst Olympics I’ve ever seen. A complete disaster
Just stop it already. Have them swim laps in a pool.
It's part of triathon, not swimming competition. They have to swim about 2.4 miles
@@sherlockholmes882 fantastic. They can figure out how many laps in a pool that is
You need to realise neither officials of the IOC or French organisers give a toss.
It’s all about the show and advertising.
They do not give a toss about the athletes
The women's triath began (horribly with whole blocks going in, other blocks standing back, waiting, officials cluelessly helpless). We'll see the illnesses arrive in a few days. Hopefully no one dies and none of the diseases require amputations, blindness - but I'm sure we'll hear screaming headlines!
People including athletes need to wake up and leave Paris and this $#&@ show called the "Olympics"
That's just plain gross
This is no river, that is France Biggest DRAIN
Exactly!
Yet they complain about the fossil fuel issue……yet polluting your main river is cool
Let's not return to France for the Olympics ever again
Thats a developed country that loved to keep fun of 'third world country' LOL.
At this point Paris looks like he'll on earth from everything displayed.
It has always been like this
Paris supposed to be on my travelling list in the future.
But I will skip it after getting all these info and of course the opening of the Olympics.
They better provide some hazmat swimming suits
Locals installed toilets to crap in the river 😂
Just the color of it its disgusting 🤮
Why didn't they think if this before the Olympics began?!
They had to do a 1.5 billion euros laundry business. Taxpayers got ripped hard for the gazillion-th time.
My goodness 1.5 billion to clean the Seine up & it is still polluted. What the hell was it like before?
Worst olympics ever 😂😂 when I remember that France criticized Qatar’s modial 😂😂😂😂😂 seriously there is no even 0.0001 to compare with !
Athletes go in and come out looking like that guy who fell into the toxic waste bin in the movie RoboCop 😂
4 billion dollars wasted 😂😂😂😂😂😂
1.4 billion*
They didn't add in the video of the swimmer puking up his guts to try and minimize the filth of that poop water! What a bunch of silly athletes swimming in that water! Literally risking their lives to swim. 🤣
The worst Olympic games in the history..Great job France.
It is sad to think that even with that big budget, the river is still dirty 😢
Paris shouldn’t be wasting money on the Olympics, it should be using its money to clean up its city.
Swimming in any river nowadays even in most cleanest countries is risky if u not native as virus bacteria parasites may get into you easily.
The spectical is more important to the Olympics than the actual sport.
They should have moved the event to a location with good water quality. France has a fantastic south coast but they haven't moved the event because it's more important to have the backdrop of Paris.
If you don't have the swim section it's a different sport.
They just did swim in it!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Canadian triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk upchucked at the finish line of the men’s triathlon event Wednesday after swimming in the Seine River, which was criticized for its cleanliness and safeness to compete amid reports of high levels of E. coli and other bacteria.
Mislawchuk, who finished ninth with a time of 1:44:25, could be seen throwing up once he crossed the finish line, but the 29-year-old later said he vomited 10 times in total.
There will be illness.
Who ok'ed swimming in the Seine?!
Someone who got paid a lot of money.
Don't let France host Olympic games ever again, there are a lot of nations which can do much better and with more will
This is a first world country?😅
Actually this is the worst Olympics ever, so they have to stop organize any sport competition in France. No responsibility, no curiosity here from French governors
Here's a better idea
Maybe just take care of the river water regardless if you host the Olympics or not?
Don't think that's possible.
This is the kind of massive project that require a special event to undertake. The point was not to clean the Seine only for the Olympic but instead use the Olympic as the event to galvanize the goal of cleaning the river. They have failed to clean it in time for the Olympics and only time will tell if the investment continue after to revitalize the Seine.
Wow, who could have seen that coming?
If Quasemodo was there, he would wish that he never left the bell tower 😂
Left beggins with L, so do Lies!
This should've been considered a Slippin' Jimmy moments 😂
I thought they were leading the world in environmentalism and no pollution and all that other stuff?
This is natural and ecological parisian poopoo
Look, there's E-Coli, there's life !
Admire the beauty of nature
No, just LGBT stuffs
No, the French government never cared about pollution
2008 Olympic is unbeatable. You can see right after the opening ceremonials
What a mess this Olympics have been
River has been pooped in for centuries. Too risky for swimming
1.5 billion just to beat Argentina 😂😅 lol jk jk