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🏊♂️ 🚴♂️ 🏃♂️ The men's Olympic triathlon event has been postponed as the water quality of the Seine, where the swim section was due to take place, has not met the required standard. The presence of bacteria such as e-Coli in the water can post a health risk to athletes and current speeds are also being monitored. The men's event has been rescheduled to tomorrow, where it will take place after the women's event. If these time slots cannot go ahead then, the contingency date of 2 August gives little time for resolution of the issues which were caused by recent heavy rainfall in the city. The worst case scenario is cutting out the swim section and proceeding with a duathlon (cycling and running) instead. The Seine is also due to host the Olympic triathlon mixed relay and marathon swim, and Paralympic triathlon events, so this is a high stakes issue for the Games. Paris 2024 representatives have indicated that high temperatures scheduled this week will be helpful to killing the bacteria and reducing the river level and therefore current speed. However, high temperatures replace one risk with another as athletes competing in certain events will face potential heat injuries such as heat stroke. Extreme heat contingency plans are said to be in place, and some events will be postponed if temperature thresholds are exceeded.

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 The Olympic triathlon mixed relay will go ahead as planned Monday, organisers said, despite two days of training in the River Seine being cancelled and a Belgian triathlete falling sick. "The latest test results confirm that the water quality of the Seine at the triathlon site has improved over the last hours, and the prospective tests indicate the water quality will be within the acceptable limits according to World Triathlon," Paris Games organisers said in a statement on Sunday. A decision was initially due to be made overnight Sunday to Monday based on bacteriological results from 24 hours before, but it was brought forward at the request of the triathlon teams to allow athletes more time to prepare.The men's triathlon was postponed from Tuesday to Wednesday earlier this week because of pollution problems, with competitors only finding out around 4:00 am on the morning of the scheduled race.Belgian triathlete Claire Michel fell "sick" after taking part in the women's race on Wednesday, the Belgian National Olympic Committee (COIB) said.As a result of her illness, her country will not take part in the mixed relay."The COIB and Belgian Triathlon hope that the lessons will be learned for future triathlon competitions at the Olympics," the committee said in a statement.(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) Topics mentioned in this article source

Paris 2024: Rain pollutes the Seine and threatens the Olympic triathlon | Paris 2024 Olympic Games The rain in Paris adds drama to the parades, knocks down cyclists and causes the sewers to overflow, threatening gastroenteritis for the triathletes, who were unable to swim on Monday as planned, to discover, near the Pont Alexandre III, the currents that will lull them during their 1,500m swim. The so-called “familiarisation” training sessions announced for 8:00 a.m. were cancelled after the latest bacteriological analyses carried out detected quantities of Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci, indicative of faecal contamination. The analyses showed E. coli above 1,000 and Enterococci above 400, which are the established limits. The contamination was also visually evident. “The water does not offer sufficient guarantees to allow the race to take place. This is due to the rain that fell in Paris on 26 and 27 July,” said the international federation (World Triathlon) in a statement, which is cheering: “Given the weather forecast for the next 48 hours, Paris 2024 and the World Triathlon are confident that the water quality will be back below the limits before the start of the triathlon competitions. As observed at the beginning of the month, with the summer conditions (more sun, higher temperatures, prolonged absence of rain) the water quality of the Seine has improved considerably.” The events are scheduled for Tuesday 30th (men’s), Wednesday 31st (women’s) and Monday 5th August (mixed relay). Open water swimming events are scheduled for Thursday 8th and Friday 9th. Triathlon, which had to cancel some swimming heats in the practice events a year ago, has no plan B. In the event that the sun and heat do not clear the water, a duathlon will be held. The water quality scale drawn up by the swimming and triathlon federations is more permissive than the scale used to authorise bathing by the general public. Diarrhoea in a triathlete who accidentally drinks water during his race would be less dangerous than an epidemic of gastroenteritis among Parisians, to whom their mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has promised a clean and bathing-friendly Seine. On 17 July, to prove that everything was going well, she herself, accompanied by Tony Estanguet, the president of the organising committee for the Games, went to the water supply centre to check the water quality. The analyses of 15 July, made public by the NGO Surfrider Foundation, showed that day a quantity of 920 E. coli per 100ml of water, almost at the limit for athletes but higher than that of the general public. “At no time during the sampling carried out in 2023 and 2024 was the water of the Seine considered to be good, contrary to what the City Council claims,” the NGO points out. “Only on two occasions, in the fall of 2023 and in July 2024, was it rated as average (between 500 and 1,000 E. coli and between 200 and 400 Enterococci). But on almost all occasions, it was too contaminated...

What Caused This? Imagine being a world-class Triathlete who has structured their entire life over a 3-4 year period to ensure they are in peak physical and mental condition for this race to be faced with such uncertainty and no Plan B. Swimming in the River Seine has been banned for 100 years as the water quality was deemed to be unsafe for the general public, but it was still decided this was the perfect location for the swimming leg of the Olympic Triathlon............with one of the main causes of postponement being heavy rain - rain that flows into the river and always has. Over €1.5bn has been spent on 'solutions' to ensure the river was clean enough for the race and for Parisians to enjoy after the Olympics has concluded. Money well spent? Solutions validated? I hope the Triathletes are able to safely enjoy their race tomorrow, but I am left wondering how else that €1.5bn could have been spent on genuine long-term sporting and environmental legacy projects in Paris & France. https://lnkd.in/eemA-Pwz #Olympics #RCA #Pollution #Triathlon

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Men’s Olympic triathlon postponed by one day due to poor water quality in the Seine | Paris 2024 Olympic Games Three days after the rains, the Seine is still unruly. The speed of its current remains above the limit of one metre per second and the faecal contamination of its waters, measured in units of the bacteria Escherichia coli and Streptococcus, exceeds the sanitary limits set by the international triathlon federation (Triathlon World) and is not suitable for swimming. At four in the morning, it was announced that the men’s race scheduled four hours later on the pontoons installed under the Pont Alexandre III was cancelled. The new plan is to hold the men’s event on Wednesday at 10.45, after the women’s event, scheduled for eight, has finished. This is the only available window, as the weather forecast predicts strong storms for the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, synonymous with an increase in faecal bacteria. Paris 2024 and the international federation are keeping their fingers crossed. If the results of the analyses do not improve, there would be two available dates, Friday 2 and Monday 5, when the mixed relay triathlon would be held. The last solution would be to contest it as a duathlon. “We all want triathlon. Duathlon is a different sport,” says Miriam Casilla, the voice of the athletes from Badajoz, for whom Paris will be her third Olympic Games. “If swimming were suspended, it would be bad for everyone, although it could benefit some people personally, because it would damage the image of triathlon. In any case, health comes first.” Galician Antonio Serrat, one of the three Spaniards in the running, can remember the collective gastroenteritis that attacked them at the World Cup event in Sunderland (United Kingdom), last summer. More than 57 participants fell ill after competing in the swimming leg at Roker beach on the weekend of July 29 and 30. The athletes who showed symptoms complained of nausea and diarrhea. “It’s nothing new that swimming is suspended,” explains Serrat, who is currently training in the pool. “Although not in a competition of this level.” It would be the first time that a triathlon, an Olympic sport since Sydney 2000, could not be held in full. It is not so strange, however, that a high-level triathlon suspends the swimming event due to contamination. Paris already had to suspend some of the test events last August and the 2023 European Championship won in Madrid by David Castro was actually a duathlon, since the swimming event scheduled in Casa de Campo could not be held due to high faecal contamination after a major storm that hit the capital. Sports, regional and municipal authorities and weather experts, who meet every day at 3.30 in the morning, analyse the data and are dismayed to find that there is no decrease in E. coli or streptococcus, bacteria that cause diarrhoea and nausea in the body, or worse infections, if water is swallowed. And they are surprised that, despite the fact that ...

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