American swimmer Joel Stratte McClure braved the murky waters of the River Seine Thursday to celebrate the Fourth of July and highlight the French government's efforts to clean up the river before ...
Swimming in the Seine has largely been banned since 1923, but Paris Olympics organizers vowed to clean the water and bring it ...
PARIS, June 7 (Reuters) - Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo's dip in the Seine ahead of the Olympics will likely happen on June 30, her office said on Friday. Hidalgo had said she would swim in the Seine ...
Originally, the swim was planned for 23 June, a month ahead of the Paris Olympics, but had to be postponed because of powerful currents provoked by heavy rain. It was further postponed by the ...
First-time Olympian Ivan Puskovitch is asked some version of the same question all the time: Are you concerned about swimming in the Seine River given all the bacteria in the water? The 23-year ...
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.
PARIS, France — Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics ...
A 76-year-old man died in a two-vehicle crash Thursday 4 miles south of Springdale in Stevens County. Gary G. Grantham, of Springdale, was driving a 2012 Honda CR-V at about 3:30 p.m. south on ...
Hidalgo said her Seine swim comes "more than 30 years after Jacques Chirac's promise". In 1990 the former French president, then mayor of Paris, promised to "bathe in the Seine in front of ...
The 780-kilometer-long river, which runs through the city of light and curves around the mighty Eiffel Tower, not only hosts ...