Matt Hauser believes ‘no one would hesitate to jump in water’Paris working on cleaning up river Seine for the Olympics
There have been concerns that the Olympic triathlon might be postponed or even reduced to a duathlon because of water quality problems in the Seine but Australia’s Matt Hauser says he will gladly take the plunge at the Paris Games.
Paris has been working on cleaning up the river so that people can swim in it again, as was the case during the 1900 Olympics. But a sewer problem last summer led to the cancellation of a pre-Olympics swimming event along with the swimming legs of triathlon and Paralympics triathlon events over water quality concerns.
