Paris Olympics: Swimmers return to the Seine for the first time in a century

July 31, 2024

After six years, $1.5 billion, innumerable tests, cascades of protests, political grandstanding, countless prayers and hopes, multiple delays, and a thunderstorm just hours before the start … swimmers are finally in the Seine once again.

The competitors in the women’s triathlon at the 2024 Olympics went into the water at 8 a.m., the first time an Olympic event has been held in the Seine in 124 years. It’s also one of the first times that any swimmers at all have legally entered the picturesque but (formerly) filthy river in a century. Yahoo News