{"id":2948,"date":"2024-08-08T01:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/paris-2024-river-seine-swim-session-takes-place-after-five-cancellations\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T01:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:05:31","slug":"paris-2024-river-seine-swim-session-takes-place-after-five-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/paris-2024-river-seine-swim-session-takes-place-after-five-cancellations\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024: River Seine swim session takes place after five cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wednesday&#8217;s familiarisation session for marathon swimming in the River Seine went ahead despite ongoing concerns over water quality.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The session had been cancelled five times because of pollution in the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It provides respite for Paris 2024 organisers after issues with events taking place in the Seine have dogged these Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men&#8217;s triathlon had to be postponed by a day because of low water quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The marathon swimming familiarisation had been cancelled after tests showed levels of bacteria in the water had dropped below the required standard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heavy rainfall has increased the levels of bacteria in the Seine, although hot weather helps to reduce the count.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/c3ejj29exzjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday&#8217;s familiarisation session for marathon swimming in the River Seine went ahead despite ongoing concerns over water quality. The session had been cancelled five times because of pollution in the river. It provides respite for Paris 2024 organisers after issues with events taking place in the Seine have dogged these Olympics. The men&#8217;s triathlon had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}