After months of uncertainty and canceled training sessions, the women’s marathon swimmers dove into the Seine on a sunny morning under the Pont Alexandre III on Aug. 8. Two days before the race, a ...

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Open water swimming at Paris 2024 is coming under ever-increasing scrutiny after World Aquatics cancelled a training session in the River Seine due to water quality concerns. While, E. coli levels ...

PARIS (AP) — Olympic open water swimmers trained in the long-polluted Seine River on Wednesday after Paris organizers determined it was safe to dive in. A two-hour training session was held on a cool, ...

PARIS, France — Sharon van Rouwendaal became the first woman to ever win the Olympic marathon swimming event twice, reclaiming the title she won in Rio and fell just short of in Tokyo. This win was ...

A week after the Olympic triathletes pioneered their way into the murky waters of Paris’s most famous body of water, two dozen of the world’s top marathon swimmers upped the ante. Those triathletes ...

Athletes dive into the Seine river as they take part in the women's marathon swimming final at the Paris Summer Olympics at Pont Alexandre III bridge on Aug. 8, 2024. Credit - Martin Bureau—Getty ...