The decision to go ahead with the swim for the triathlon competitions was a big deal for the city, Olympics organizers, and the athletes. Officials undertook an ambitious plan... to clean up the long-polluted Seine and have been steadfast in their insistence that the swimming portion of the triathlon... could safely be held in the river.
"The problem is always worse when there's a heavy rainfall, because it kind of overwhelms the pipes and you also get all the runoff from the street. All that lands in the Seine," explained Dr. Nicole Iovine, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Florida.
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