European Aquatics Cancels Training Session in Seine River Amid Traces of Hydrocarbons
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There's trouble again because of the water quality in the Seine. Isabel Gose still goes through and wins her first single gold in the open water.
The topic of water quality accompanies outdoor swimming also at the EM. A training fails. Now there is a decision to race this Friday.
The discovery of traces of hydrocarbons in the Seine led to the cancellation of the free-water swimming and high-flight diving trainings scheduled for Thursday, August 6, in the framework of the European swimming championships in Paris.
The topic of water quality accompanies outdoor swimming also at the EM. A training fails. Now there is a decision to race this Friday.
The water of the Seine is still too polluted and the promise made by President Emmanuel Macron to make the river bathing for the Olympics 2024 is now only a vague memory. Already on that occasion had been many athletes who had contracted the Escheria Coli, causing controversy and protests from all the participants. Today, on the occasion of the European Championships of swimming in free waters of Paris, the music is always the same and, due to t…
In the interest of athlete safety, the various sessions scheduled for Thursday in the capital river were cancelled. The competition, which began on 31 July, had so far encountered no problems of bathinability.
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