Following the Olympic cleanup, the public can now swim in the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, or East Paris.

See the Paris map above to understand how they're laid out, with the Seine River cutting through the middle and dividing the city into right and left banks (rive droite and rive gauche ...

After Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the river, she said the Olympics were "a kind of magnet that attracted all our energies towards a single date, July 26, and we did it.” ...

The world is officially a month from the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics — and new tests just revealed that one of the Games' focal points for events, the Seine River in Paris, isn't ready.

The Seine River remains a contaminated soup of E. coli and other potentially dangerous bacteria — despite Paris’ billion-dollar clean-up efforts ahead of next month’s Olympic games.

FILE – Athletes dive and swim in the Seine River from the Alexander III bridge on the first leg of the women’s triathlon test event for the Olympics Games in Paris, Aug. 17, 2023.

The Paris 2024 spokesperson said the multi-agency effort to make the Seine swimmable was initiated more than 30 years ago. By the time the Games start, the efforts to clean up the river "will have ...

Paris officials spent $1.6 billion to clean up the Seine in time for last year's 2024 Olympics, but despite the cash infusion, some races had to be postponed because of water quality issues. File ...

Billions of dollars have been spent to clean up the River Seine in time for this month's 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. With the opening ceremonies now upon us, all eyes are on the city to see if ...

PARIS — At 20 seconds past 8 a.m. Wednesday, 55 female triathletes plunged into the Seine just below the Pont Alexandre III. The Nymphs of the Seine carved into the bridge’s arch, a fleet of ...

Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo and other officials attend the inauguration of the Austerlitz wastewater and rainwater storage basin, which is intended to make the Seine river cleaner during the Paris ...