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Belgian triathleteJolien Vermeylenslammedthe 2024 Paris Olympic Games organizers for making athletes compete in thehighly pollutedRiver Seine.
She continued: It doesnt taste like Coca-Cola or Sprite, of course.
Thats bulls***!
The initiative involved multiple sanitization procedures and infrastructure rebuilding efforts with costs ascending upwards of $1.5 billion.
I took probiotics, I drank my Yakult, I couldnt do more.
It was now or never, and they couldnt cancel the race completely either.
Now they just have to hope that there wont be too many sick athletes, she continued.
Vermeylen ended up in 24th place, with Frances Cassandre Beaugrand winning the gold medal in the womens triathlon.
Even with treatment plants for homes and businesses, runoff from streets and sidewalks goes directly there.
Imagine the dog waste alone from Paris streets.
This was a terrible idea, stated another.
Parts of the sewage system in Paris are hundreds of years old.
To this day when toilets are flushed the contents go straight to the river.
Fecalcoliform counts are high and the heavy rain dumped floaters from the waste systems.
Think of it as an obstacle course, one viewer joked.
Absolutely disgusting!
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