Each time, poor water quality levels were blamed. Better news arrived on Monday: Paris 2024 organizers say the hot sun over the past two days most likely means the water will be clean enough on Tuesday morning for competitors to dive in for the first 1.5 kilometers of the men's race before jumping on their bicycles and then running 10 kilometers. We are confident we will be able to hold the competition tomorrow, Etienne Thobois, the chief executive of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, said at a news conference on Monday.
The authorities have spent 1.4 billion euros (more than $1.53 billion) on an ambitious, multipronged and labor-intensive plan to clean the Seine or, more precisely, to prevent filthy water from flowing into it. They have dug new sewage pipes to homes, connected the city's refurbished peniches houseboats to the sewage system and added special treatments to two upstream sewage plants.
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