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Not safe to swim: Paris Olympics event cancelled over Seine water quality concerns
(www.euronews.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
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Just fucking swim indoors for fucks sake
Or find another river or lake nearby that isn’t treated like an open sewer.
That would make any potential world record not comparable with previous iterations of the event.
I'm more familiar with running marathon, where there are specific criteria that a course has to meet to be eligible for world record consideration. Along these, course must be generally on roads, and the finish line must be within a certain close distance of the start to mitigate wind effects.
They can easily replicate all conditions indoors