Paris mayor is confident that water quality will allow Olympic swimming in the River Seine

Japan Today— Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was confident water quality in the River Seine will be up to Olympic standards this summer — and that she’ll be able to prove it by swimming there, possibly alongside President Emmanuel Macron. The Seine is the venue for marathon swimming at the Games

Global News—Paris Olympics: Mayor vows River Seine water quality ‘will be good’. Paris mayor said she was confident water quality in the River Seine will be up to Olympic standards this summer — and that she’ll be able to prove it by swimming there.

NBC4 Washington—Paris inaugurates giant water storage basin to clean up the River Seine for Olympic swimming. French officials inaugurated on Thursday a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine, which is to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons.

KSBW—Paris Olympics: Team USA qualifies in artistic swimming. Artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, is considered one of the hardest Olympic sports.