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Seine pollution too risky for Olympic athletes, warns environmental group

The flooded banks of the Seine river, 5 April 2024. An French environmental group has measured dangerous levels of pollution in the river over the past months during one of the city's wettest winters on record. © Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

The Seine that runs through Paris and is set to be the stage for the Summer Olympics remains too polluted just months before the start of the games, warns a French environmental organisation that published results from months-long testing of the river

The Surfrider Foundation said Monday it had been analysing twice-monthly tests of the water between the Alexandre-III and Alma bridges, where Olympic events are set to take place, since September and concluded the river remains polluted and potentially dangerous.

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