London | Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has made good on a promise to take a dip in the French capital’s river Seine before the Olympics, hoping to prove it is safe enough to host marathon swimming and the triathlon.
Doubts have swirled over whether a €1.4 billion ($2.3 billion) clean-up had done the trick on the chronically polluted waterway. This had prompted fears that events which were meant to showcase Paris’s beauty would instead highlight its shortcomings.
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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.