When Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine river close to the Alexandre III bridge in Paris on July 31, they were making history—and not just by going for gold. The event, which also saw the ...

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.

Paris — The first Olympic swimming event in the Seine river has been postponed as tests of the river water continue. The swimming leg of the men's triathlon was originally scheduled to happen Tuesday ...

With 35 days before the start of Paris' Olympic Games, last-minute preparations are being made to ready the city, particularly to ensure that swimming events will be possible in the river Seine. Some ...

PARIS — The men’s triathlon race, set to take place Tuesday morning, has been delayed a day due to unsafe water pollution levels in the River Seine, Olympics organizers said. But the International ...

PARIS — Meandering down the Seine R iver, the light breeze, gentle current and the sun’s glistening rays weren’t the only things the three kayakers were hoping to catch on a warm spring day — they ...

Senior Correspondent American triathlete Seth Rider wants everyone to know: his comments that went viral this week were a joke. The water quality of the Seine, where the swimming leg of both the women ...

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 ...

The Seine River is a winding tributary of the Red River, and I was surprised to learn that it is Winnipeg’s second-longest ...