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.

For the first time in more than 100 years, Parisians and tourists alike took a dive into the Seine on Saturday as three new swimming sites opened to the public. The long-forbidden waters are now ...

0:34 Paris 2024: Men’s triathlon postponed over Seine water quality Some Olympic triathletes who swam in the River Seine have fallen sick and were forced to pull out of competition this week amid ...

PARIS — After months of speculation about whether the Seine River would be clean enough for Olympic athletes to compete in it, officials deemed the water safe for swimming after a last-minute test.

On Saturday, Parisians and tourists alike were able to swim in France’s Seine River for the first time in over a century. The river has been closed off to swimmers since 1923, when it was deemed too ...

PARIS (AP) — Swimming in the Seine is an increasingly popular tourist attraction in the French capital — and a must-do for Parisians themselves. Thousands of people have enjoyed a dip in the river ...

Paris city hall announced on Friday that the Seine has been clean enough for swimming for most of the past 12 days, just weeks before the start of the 2024 Games. Despite recent unseasonable rain that ...

Banks of the Seine river Paris Plage on the quays in 2013. © Sylvain Sonnet/Hemis/Corbis A woman enjoys the sun next to the Pont Neuf bridge at Paris Plage in 2013 ...

Levels of contamination in Paris’ River Seine remain unsafe for Olympians to compete with just over a month remaining before the games, according to a monitoring report from the city of Paris.

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 15: Workers prepare stands set ahed for the opening ceremony along Seine river a on July 15, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images) Senior Correspondent The ...