Despite $1.53 billion having been budgeted to scrub up the perennially polluted Seine, stories swirled for months main as much as the Paris Games about whether or not it might be protected sufficient to carry the swimming leg of the triathlons and the ten,000-meter marathons within the river.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo went for a swim July 17 and declared France’s most well-known physique of water good to go—however it’s been form of a s–t present for the reason that Olympics started.

On Monday, July 29, swims for the triathletes to familiarize themselves with the Seine have been canceled, officers citing poor water high quality ranges attributable to run-off from the weekend’s heavy rains (which noticeably began in the course of the July 26 Opening Ceremony).

The males’s triathlon was then postponed a day and rescheduled to comply with the ladies’s occasion on July 31 after organizers deemed micro organism ranges too excessive for a protected swim.

Both triathlons have been held July 31, day-of assessments discovering that E. coli and intestinal enterococci ranges have been low sufficient to qualify the water as “excellent quality,” per the European Union’s Bathing Water Directive.

But hypothesis that the water wasn’t protected resumed after two athletes who competed within the triathlon dropped out of the mixed-relay competitors, citing respective diseases (neither of which have been definitively linked to swimming within the Seine).

The girls’s and males’s 10,000 meters are nonetheless scheduled for Aug. 8 and 9, however practices have been canceled Aug. 6 after assessments confirmed micro organism ranges have been as soon as once more too excessive.