The water quality of the Seine river is still not good enough to serve as the venue for swimming competitions at the Olympics, a report said. The opening ceremony is also set to take place on the river.
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Use fucken pools
The regular swimming events will be done in a pool. The issues are the weird ones:
- the open-water marathon (10 km) swimming event, which can’t be done in a pool by definition of “open-water,” and
- the triathlon, which would require a pool big enough to handle a mass start of 55 competitors all at once, with space next to it for the swim-bike transition zone.
