Parisians will soon be able to bathe in the Seine again, after a century-long ban and four decades of promises.
A planned clean-up has been accelerated for the 2024 Olympics in the capital, meaning that in 2025, a year after open-water Olympic events take place in the river, public swimming is to be allowed at 23 locations, President Macron’s office has said. Five will be in the capital itself.
People were banned from swimming in the Seine in 1923 because of pollution.
