Paris (AFP) – The river Seine is still failing water quality tests one month before the Paris Olympics when it is scheduled to host the open-water swimming competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon, results showed Friday.
I guess you’d have to be insane to swim in it.
Fantastic pun
Would be better if it was actually pronounced that way. But it sounds more like Sin.
No it doesn’t.
It does in French
It’s pronounced [sϵn] The ϵ sound exists in English, like the “ea” in " death" or the first “e” in “letter”.
So just send without the d?
Yes !
sin, sen, close enough. my point was that it does not sound like “sane” which is what the joke implied and is wrong.
No it doesn’t.
Almost makes you wonder if that’s what the elections are for.
They have elections to decide who’s going to shit in the Seine?
No that’s all of Paris, that part is fixed.
The president promised to swim in it though, and a bad election result might just give him an excuse to ‘step back’.
Let’s have a contaminated river for years and just clean it for the event. What could wo grong? /s
Do they have a backup river? Or can they just go up stream past where the poo is discharged?
They don’t have a backup.
Is this a concern for the Olympics, or the environment (with a spotlight brought on it due to the Olympics)? Hopefully something is done to correct this for the long term.
It’s because of the historical sewage system, which will still occiassionally bleed sewage into the River Seine. Hoog made a great video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S26CHpcD2zk
I understand that part.
Well, if the world keeps electing far right nut job leaders, things like this will all likely improve, yes… Yes?
