Well, the Olympics are over but I will say this: it was good that attention was brought to water quality in the Seine.
I feel for the athletes who got sick. I’m a wild swimmer myself, and when I see something like this:
I find myself full of anger. Not just that this is the case, but also that the populace puts up with it. The news stories I’ve been reading about trying to clean up the Seine for the Olympics suggest that this was not meant to be a one-off, but that Parisians would like to be able to swim in their river going forward. We may hope so.