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For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists are getting ready to take a refreshing dip in the Seine.
The Seine is open to public swimming for the first time in 100 years, after the Olympics clean up of the river in Paris.
The French capital's iconic waterway has been largely closed to swimmers since 1923 due to pollution and risks from river ...
Parisians have legally swum in the Seine River for the first time in more than 100 years. On Saturday morning, designated ...
Paris has reopened public swimming in the Seine River for the summer, allowing visitors to enjoy the waterway that was ...
The famed Seine river in Paris opened to the public for swimming on Saturday for the first time in over a 100 years, a key ...
If the filthy River Seine in Paris can be cleaned up to welcome back swimmers after a century-long ban, so too can ...
To ensure the river was Olympic-ready, Paris invested $1.5 billion into the cleanup effort, known as the “Swimming Plan.” As ...
The Seine River swimming experience even inspired its own horror film — “Sous la Seine” (“Under Paris”), a French thriller now streaming on Netflix, ...
After swimming two laps in the Seine, a 1.5-kilometer (1-mile) course, the athletes emerged from the water and ran up a set of stairs to jump on their bikes for a ride through the streets of Paris ...
Athletes dive into the Seine River from the Alexander III bridge on the start of the first leg of the women’s triathlon test event for the 2024 Paris Olympics on Aug. 17, 2023.
Olympic triathletes dove into the Seine River on Wednesday after organizers declared the water in Paris safe for swimming following days of concerns about elevated bacteria levels caused by heavy ...