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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5962996" data-attributes="member: 48469">Sounds like it&#039;s a magical time to be an olympic swimmer. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parisians-threatening-to-poop-in-the-seine-river-this-weekend-to-protest-the-olympics/" target="_blank">Parisians threaten to poop in Seine River to protest sewage contamination ahead of Paris 2024 Summer Olympics - CBS News</a>June 22, 2024&quot;The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics are just a month away, but there is still a nasty controversy brewing over one of the spots serving as a focal point for the event — the Seine River. After months of tests showing high levels of bacteria from sewage and wastewater, residents fed up with the river pollution just weeks before Olympic athletes are set to dive in are threatening to stage a mass defecation in protest.&quot;<hr /><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5041447/seine-water-quality-paris-olympics-swimming-triathlon-marathon" target="_blank">Will the Seine be clean enough to swim in by the Olympics? Not even the experts know : NPR</a>July 16, 2024&quot;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 scheduled to take place in the Seine, where it has been illegal to swim for more than a century. Despite the city&#039;s efforts to clean up the long-polluted river, the water has tested unsafe for humans in recent weeks, and cleaner on other days. The Games run from July 26-Aug. 11.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5962996, member: 48469"] Sounds like it's a magical time to be an olympic swimmer. [URL='https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parisians-threatening-to-poop-in-the-seine-river-this-weekend-to-protest-the-olympics/']Parisians threaten to poop in Seine River to protest sewage contamination ahead of Paris 2024 Summer Olympics - CBS News[/URL] June 22, 2024 "The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics are just a month away, but there is still a nasty controversy brewing over one of the spots serving as a focal point for the event — the Seine River. After months of tests showing high levels of bacteria from sewage and wastewater, residents fed up with the river pollution just weeks before Olympic athletes are set to dive in are threatening to stage a mass defecation in protest." [HR][/HR] [URL='https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5041447/seine-water-quality-paris-olympics-swimming-triathlon-marathon']Will the Seine be clean enough to swim in by the Olympics? Not even the experts know : NPR[/URL] July 16, 2024 "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 scheduled to take place in the Seine, where it has been illegal to swim for more than a century. Despite the city's efforts to clean up the long-polluted river, the water has tested unsafe for humans in recent weeks, and cleaner on other days. The Games run from July 26-Aug. 11." [/QUOTE]

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