For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists will be able to take a refreshing dip in the River Seine.

Following the Olympic cleanup, the public can now swim in the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, or East Paris.

For the first time in more than 100 years, the Seine River in Paris has opened for swimming and recreation, following a $1.5 ...

Paris plans to make the Seine the centerpiece of the 2024 Olympic Games, with long-term efforts to clean up the river allowing swimming events to take place in its waters. CNN values your feedback 1.

For the first time in over a century, Parisians are once again swimming in the River Seine. What once seemed impossible is ...

Organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games want to make use of the Seine River, even for some swimming events. Cleaning up the city's famous waterway is proving difficult though.

How Paris Is Remaking a River. Organizers of the 2024 Summer Games promised a waterway clean enough for Olympic swimmers and then Parisians to swim in. The job was bigger than anyone knew.

PARIS — After years of promises and more than $1 billion of investment, Paris’s once-filthy river is finally swimmable. And the mayor proved it just days before the July 26 Olympic deadline.

Paris spent 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) to prepare the river ahead of the Olympics. In addition to the swimming portion of the triathlon, the marathon swimming event also is expected to be ...

Ducks swim along the Seine River in front of the Eiffel Tower during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 29, 2024, in Paris. As the Olympics continue in Paris, the Seine River’s water quality ...

Seine River remains highly contaminated ahead of Paris Olympics 05:51. The world is officially a month from the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics — and new tests just revealed that one of the ...

PARIS, July 13 (Reuters) − French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea Castera took the plunge and swam in the River Seine on Saturday, in a publicity moment that French authorities hope will show the ...