The Minister of Sports’ swim “shows that the Seine is swimmable”, insists Pierre Rabadan, deputy mayor

While the Minister of Sports swam in the Seine on Saturday, the deputy mayor assured that Anne Hidalgo would do the same next Wednesday, “depending on the results” of the water quality analyses.

Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra’s swim in the Seine on Saturday “shows that the Seine is swimmable”, insists this Sunday on franceinfo Pierre Rabadan, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of sport, the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Seine, in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Games. He confirms that Mayor Anne Hidalgo will also be swimming in the Seine on Wednesday, before specifying that “all this must be refined according to the results of the Seine which we monitor daily and the weather which guides the state of the river, its flow and its quality”.

The deputy mayor explains that the authorities “look at natural phenomena” as the trials that will take place in the river approach. “Today, we know that it should go until the start of the tests, we do not have a big alert on the subject”he adds. He claims that “water quality” of the Seine is today “compliant” and considers that it will remain “the case given the weather forecast”. Pierre Rabadan therefore insists that he “There is no need to worry”. “We will also be ready to swim in the Seine”he says.