PARIS — With the Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in? Triathlon and marathon swimming are ...

"The quality of the Seine is good." 'The health of the athletes must come first' Only time will tell if the confidence of French leaders will convince Olympic athletes that the river is safe.

Furious Frenchmen are threatening to turn the Seine into a sewer this Sunday in a bizarre protest against the eye-watering costs of Olympic preparations. The movement, cheekily dubbed # ...

The swimming portion of the triathlon event at the 2024 Paris Olympics might be impacted by poor water quality in the city's Seine River. Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 Organizing ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on river Seine, the storied French waterway that was once nearly biologically dead but is not ...

The Olympics will transform Paris ... This browser does not support the video element. The River Seine, which flows through the heart of Paris, will be a central location throughout the Games.

Things like swimming in the Seine at the Paris Olympics brought a focus on the river being an asset rather than a liability." As a sign of that change of public perception in recent years ...