PARIS — After years of promises and more than $1 billion of investment, Paris’s once-filthy river is finally swimmable. And the mayor proved it just days before the July 26 Olympic deadline.
PARIS (AP) — 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 ...
Swimming has been allowed again in the River Seine in Paris from Saturday for the first time since 1923. This happened after many years of cleanup work. The reopening is seen as one of the results of ...