Paris Mayor Gets Seine River, Which He Had Played Macron Probably Won’t Go In

 
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will take a dip in the Seine on the 17th, AFP reported. Her dip was postponed twice due to weather and pollution, but it was made possible recently with better weather and reduced pollution.

Mayor Hidalgo announced this in a statement on the 16th, explaining, “This event demonstrates the efforts of the city and the state to improve the water quality and ecological status of the Seine.”

Mayor Hidalgo had originally planned to take a dip last month, but had to postpone it after E. coli levels were found to be 10 times higher than the approved standard. In addition, the dip was delayed due to heavy rains starting in early July and the early general elections.

The mayor’s bid for the river on the 17th will be joined by former canoeist Tony Etanguet, president of the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee, and Marc Guillaume, the governor of the Paris metropolitan area.

President Emmanuel Macron announced at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Village in February that he would join the bid at an appropriate time before the opening of the Olympics, but AFP reported that he is unlikely to join due to political complications following the general election.

The Seine River will be used for the Olympic triathlon swimming competitions on July 30-31 and August 5, and for the open-water swimming competitions on August 8-9.

In Paris in June, a campaign called “Let’s shit in the Seine” took place after the mayor’s announcement of the river’s bid. The argument was that the government was spending a huge amount of money to use the Seine as a stadium while ignoring the problems that Parisians were experiencing, such as traffic congestion. The citizens had planned to do this on the day of the mayor’s bid (originally scheduled for the 23rd), but it was delayed and never happened. Meanwhile, on the 13th, Sports Minister Amelie Oudeacastera became the first politician to swim in the Seine River by swimming with Paralympic athlete Alexis Anquincan. 카지노사이트