They swam in the damn Seine. At 8 a.m. Wednesday, 55 women dove in under a heavy gray sky. The city was quiet except for the buzzing of the helicopters overhead.
After two months of weekly reports from the city of Paris, the Paris 2024 Olympics organizers have stopped publishing data.
Maybe, between the river that was too dirty to practice in, the slippery cobblestones of the Champs-Élysées under their wheels, and crowds cheering the run through Paris, there was a kind of home-field advantage.
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