Horrible water quality made it illegal to swim in the Seine for more than a century, but the Olympics pushed forward to hold all of its open-water swimming events in Paris as planned last summer. Locals were allowed to enter the water on Saturday for the first time since 1923. The poop smell was “barely noticeable” as they beat the heat with a legal dip in the so-called “river.” First of all, the Seine “River” is not actually a river once it reaches the capital of France. Paris’ iconic body of water is a drainage basin at its core. All kinds of trash and debris frequently washes up o...

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