The level of faecal bacteria in the Seine was above the World Aquatics standards of 400 colony-forming units of enterococci per 100 millilitres. The women’s marathon swim competition is set for Thursday, while the men are scheduled to race Friday.
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Just fucking swim indoors for fucks sake
Or find another river or lake nearby that isn’t treated like an open sewer.
That would make any potential world record not comparable with previous iterations of the event.
I’m more familiar with running marathon, where there are specific criteria that a course has to meet to be eligible for world record consideration. Along these, course must be generally on roads, and the finish line must be within a certain close distance of the start to mitigate wind effects.
They can easily replicate all conditions indoors
Tons of people saw this coming and warned about it, but the opinion of rich and powerful people is the ultimate law.
Well, that’s shitty.
Craptastic too.
The actual level they found in the river was 436 units per 100 millilitres. This is definitely the right call.
Sounds like the same quality benchmark for Stella Artois.
HEY!!!
This should be tagged NSFW: No Safe French Water
above 400 colony-forming units of enterococci per 100 millilitres
You can take the French out of the colonies but you can’t take the colonies out of France.
Didn’t Victor Hugo wrote about how disgusting the Seine was?
They never cleaned it up?
