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Swedish marathon swimmer Victor Johansson has pulled out of the Olympic men\u2019s 10km event scheduled for Friday citing concerns about the water quality of the Seine river, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported.<\/p>
Both Paris 2024 organisers and World Aquatics guaranteed the water quality met the thresholds set by the sport\u2019s governing body.<\/p>
Johansson told the paper triathletes had fallen sick after swimming in the urban river during the Olympic competition, without naming any.<\/p>
\u201cThere is a lot of information that has been flying around, but what we know for sure is that people have become ill,\u201d the paper quoted him as saying.<\/p>
\u201cSo even though the levels (of E.coli bacteria) have gone down, it didn\u2019t feel good to start. The triathletes were in the Seine for about 20 minutes, and despite the short time, some got sick,\u201d Johansson added.<\/p>
\u201cParis 2024, together with World Aquatics, has put in place a rigorous water quality monitoring process,\u201d Games organisers said in a statement to Reuters. \u201cToday\u2019s results were considered \u2018very good\u2019 according to the World Aquatics thresholds for E.coli and Enterococci on all four testing points across the marathon swimming course.\u201d<\/p>
World Aquatics in a statement added: \u201cThe men\u2019s marathon swim will only take place after analysis of the latest water quality readings overnight.<\/p>
\u201cWe are very confident that the water quality will remain very good and that the race will be able to go ahead.\u201d<\/p>
Swedish media reported that the nation\u2019s triathlete Tilda Mansson fell sick and was vomiting a few days after competing in the women\u2019s event on July 31, though the team did not confirm there was a connection with the Seine water.<\/p>
The Netherlands\u2019 Sharon van Rouwendaal won the women\u2019s 10km event earlier on Thursday, saying she had swallowed some of the Seine water during her swim but was fine about an hour after the race.<\/p>
The women\u2019s event went ahead as scheduled after organisers said the water quality had met acceptable thresholds.<\/p>","article_custom_fields":"{\"\":[\"\"],\"seo_meta_keywords\":[\"\"],\"seo_meta_description\":[\"\"],\"seo_meta_title\":[\"\"],\"sponsored_flag\":[\"\"],\"offer_flag\":[\"\"],\"featured_article_flag\":[\"\"],\"drupal_json\":[\"{\\\"type\\\":null,\\\"properties\\\":{\\\"PUBLISHED\\\":0,\\\"PROMOTED\\\":0,\\\"STICKY\\\":0,\\\"LANGUAGE\\\":0,\\\"PUBLISH_STATUS\\\":0,\\\"BODY_SUMMARY\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"ENTITYQUEUES\\\":\\\"\\\"},\\\"fields\\\":[]}\"],\"wp_custom_json\":[\"{\\\"type\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"fields\\\":[]}\"],\"breaking_news\":[\"off\"],\"twitter_share\":[\"off\"],\"facebook_share\":[\"off\"],\"twitter_headline\":[\"\"],\"page_number\":\"2\",\"initial_publication\":\"Sport\",\"date_created\":\"2024-08-09 00:54:40\",\"date_modified\":\"2024-08-09 00:54:39\",\"last_modified_user\":\"Jitendra Patel \",\"section_color\":\"#08f304\",\"target_page\":\"2\",\"cxense_metatags\":null}","cms_type":"live","author_id":0,"section_id":3,"seo_meta_keywords":"Swedish,swimmer,out,of,marathon,in,River,Seine","seo_meta_description":"Swedish swimmer out of marathon in River Seine","seo_meta_title":"Swedish swimmer out of marathon in River Seine","publish_time":"2024-08-09 00:53:00","related_articles_ids":"","article_tags":"","sub_section_id":0,"visit_count":10,"sponsored_flag":0,"offer_flag":0,"featured_article_flag":0,"media_gallery_flag":0,"video_gallery_flag":0,"highlight_flag":0,"top_story_flag":0,"is_updated":0,"is_old_article":0,"old_article_id":0,"article_byline":"Reuters\rParis","ts":"2024-08-09 06:53:01","last_edited":"2024-08-09 00:54:39","alt_publish_time":"2024-08-08 21:56:44","image_path":"{\\\"image_path\\\":\\\"gulftimes\\\\\/uploads\\\\\/images\\\\\/2024\\\\\/08\\\\\/08\\\\\/208988.jpg\\\",\\\"cms_type\\\":\\\"live\\\",\\\"small_image\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"is_updated\\\":\\\"0\\\",\\\"image_cropping\\\":\\\"{\\\\\\\"original_image\\\\\\\":{\\\\\\\"image_original_width\\\\\\\":1772,\\\\\\\"image_original_height\\\\\\\":1181,\\\\\\\"icd_image_type\\\\\\\":\\\\\\\"original_image\\\\\\\"}}\\\",\\\"is_copied\\\":\\\"0\\\",\\\"media_type\\\":\\\"0\\\",\\\"image_caption\\\":\\\"Athletes dive into the Seine river at the start of the women\\\\u2019s 10km marathon swimming final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Pont Alexandre III bridge in Paris on Thursday. (AFP)\\\",\\\"image_alt_text\\\":\\\"\\\",\\\"image_count\\\":1}","author_name":"","section_name":"Sports","sub_section_name":"","slide_show":0,"breaking_news":0,"visit_count_update_date":"2024-08-09 06:53:01","old_cms_article_id":null,"permalink":"article\/688274\/sports\/swedish-swimmer-out-of-marathon-in-river-seine","show_image_in_thumb":0,"api_status":2,"a_custom_data":"{\"exclude_from_gallery\":null,\"lead_image_id\":null}","publication_id":1,"max_publish_time":"2024-08-09 00:53:00","page_number":"","homepage_article_flag":0,"article_shortlink":null,"fb_shared_flag":0,"cropped_image":0,"audio_url":null}
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Athletes dive into the Seine river at the start of the women’s 10km marathon swimming final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Pont Alexandre III bridge in Paris on Thursday. (AFP)
Swedish marathon swimmer Victor Johansson has pulled out of the Olympic men’s 10km event scheduled for Friday citing concerns about the water quality of the Seine river, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported.
Both Paris 2024 organisers and World Aquatics guaranteed the water quality met the thresholds set by the sport’s governing body.
Johansson told the paper triathletes had fallen sick after swimming in the urban river during the Olympic competition, without naming any.
“There is a lot of information that has been flying around, but what we know for sure is that people have become ill,” the paper quoted him as saying.
“So even though the levels (of E.coli bacteria) have gone down, it didn’t feel good to start. The triathletes were in the Seine for about 20 minutes, and despite the short time, some got sick,” Johansson added.
“Paris 2024, together with World Aquatics, has put in place a rigorous water quality monitoring process,” Games organisers said in a statement to Reuters. “Today’s results were considered ‘very good’ according to the World Aquatics thresholds for E.coli and Enterococci on all four testing points across the marathon swimming course.”
World Aquatics in a statement added: “The men’s marathon swim will only take place after analysis of the latest water quality readings overnight.
“We are very confident that the water quality will remain very good and that the race will be able to go ahead.”
Swedish media reported that the nation’s triathlete Tilda Mansson fell sick and was vomiting a few days after competing in the women’s event on July 31, though the team did not confirm there was a connection with the Seine water.
The Netherlands’ Sharon van Rouwendaal won the women’s 10km event earlier on Thursday, saying she had swallowed some of the Seine water during her swim but was fine about an hour after the race.
The women’s event went ahead as scheduled after organisers said the water quality had met acceptable thresholds.
