What a surprise! Since early July 2025, Parisians and visitors have once again been going for a dip in Paris’ Seine River.

The test results by monitoring group Eau de Paris show that for all but one day from June 26 to July 2, contamination levels were below the safe limit of 900 colony-forming units per 100 ...

The Summer Olympics are fast approaching, but there's one big problem. Marathon swimming and triathlon competitions are set to take place in Paris’ iconic Seine River, but testing reveals the water is ...

The Seine River, seen in the background of a microbiology research intern testing the river's water quality last August, had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before the Paris ...

The River Seine was used for swimming competitions during the last Olympics hosted by Paris more than 100 years ago, in 1900, and for recreation until swimming was banned in 1926 due to pollution ...

Water pollution levels in Paris's River Seine remain much higher than allowed for bathing, data showed on Friday, one month before the Olympics.

More than 50,000 people have been swimming in the Seine since the opening of three pools in Paris on 5 July, French sports minister Marie Barsacq said this weekend.

This article was published 30/07/2024 (300 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Swimming has been off-limits in the long-polluted Seine River in Paris for more than a century.

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Athletes are pictured swimming in the Seine River on Aug. 17, 2023 during a women's triathlon test event for this year's Olympic competition. (Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images) ...

PARIS (AP) — A 75-year-old American swimmer took a dip in the Seine River on Thursday, braving the murky waters in central Paris to celebrate the Fourth of July and ...