Despite $1.53 billion having been budgeted to wash up the perennially polluted Seine, reviews swirled for months main as much as the Paris Games about whether or not it will be protected sufficient to carry the swimming leg of the triathlons and the 10-kilometer marathons in 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 type 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 brought on by run-off from the weekend’s heavy rains (which noticeably began through the July 26 Opening Ceremony).

The males’s triathlon was then postponed a day and rescheduled to observe 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 exams 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 in the triathlon dropped out of the mixed-relay competitors, citing respective sicknesses (neither of which have been definitively linked to swimming in the Seine).

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