The Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, went for a swim in the Seine on Saturday morning, according to images broadcast by BFMTV, a few days before the scheduled swim of the PS mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.
The Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games went for a swim in a wetsuit in the heart of Paris, near the Pont des Invalides, not far from where the Olympic events are to take place. She didn’t escape slipping as she entered the river, accompanied by the brand new flag bearer of the French Paralympic team, paratriathlete Alexis Hanquinquant.
Water finally compliant
She is therefore a few days ahead of Anne Hidalgo, with whom she has a notoriously bad relationship and who has planned to swim on July 17 if the water quality allows. The Olympic triathlon and open water swimming events are to take place at the Pont Alexandre III.
After several rounds of poor results due to very rainy weather, local authorities announced good results from water analysis on Friday, exactly two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games.
The organizers of the Paris Olympics, as well as the State, the city hall and the regional prefecture, are on edge because of the very rainy weather since spring, which has caused rehearsals for the opening ceremony and training for the French open water swimming team to be postponed.
The water quality of the Seine was in line with bathing standards “eleven days, or ten days” out of the last twelve, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the Olympic Games and the Seine said on RFI on Friday. “We hope that the weather will be a little better but we have no concerns at all about the possible holding of the competitions, which will take place,” he added.
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