Anne Hidalgo is always ready to wet the swimsuit for the Olympics. Less than three months before the start of the Games, the mayor of Paris reaffirmed her plan to swim in the Seine before the start of the events. The goal ? Prove that taking a dip in the river, something prohibited since 1923, will indeed be a “cultural heritage” of the Games. “I know, there are still plenty of skeptical people, who go “gnagnagna, gnagnagna”. So the “gnagnagna”, I tell them: yes, we are going to swim in the Seine, because we have done what is necessary so that the Seine can be swimmable”, affirmed Anne Hidalgo, this Tuesday in the newspaper Le Monde, during the inauguration of the Georges-Vallerey swimming pool, rehabilitated for the Games.
The mayor of Paris also revealed the location of her swim: it will be at the Bras Marie (4th arrondissement), facing Île Saint-Louis, on the right bank side. If the exact date is not known, she specified the month by promising a “big dive into the Seine in June. It’s going to be a great moment, assures the councilor. I think that once this exercise is done, Parisians will be convinced that the Seine is a river that we take care of. “. Will she be accompanied by President Emmanuel Macron? In any case, she invited him, as did Thomas Bach (President of the IOC) and Amélie Oudéa-Castéra (Minister of Sports and JOPs).
2024-04-30 22:56:42
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