PARIS (AP) — 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 ...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swam in the long-polluted Seine River on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open Olympic swimming competitions. $1.5 billion has been ...

Paris' Seine River's water levels are below the required standards for the men's triathlon to take place, its governing body said.

French citizens have taken to social media to protest the Seine's cleanliness ahead of the 2024 Olympics. Dubbed "Je Chie Dans La Seine Le 23 Juin" or "I poop in the Seine on June 23," the movement ...

French sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra took a symbolic dip in the Seine on Saturday in a bid to ease concerns about water quality before the start of the Paris Olympics. Oudéa-Castéra, dressed in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cries of “It is warm!” rang out across the Seine on Saturday morning as Parisians jumped into the river — legally — for the first time in more than 100 years. Public swimming was allowed in designated ...

Cries of "It is warm!" rang out across the Seine on Saturday morning as Parisians took a plunge in the river for the first time in more than 100 years. The French capital's iconic waterway has been ...