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Up sh*t creek: E Coli in the Seine double the max for Olympic events

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 25 Jun 2024, 7:55am
View of the Alexandre III Bridge with the infrastructures for the Paris Olympic Games. Photo / Getty
View of the Alexandre III Bridge with the infrastructures for the Paris Olympic Games. Photo / Getty

Up sh*t creek: E Coli in the Seine double the max for Olympic events

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 25 Jun 2024, 7:55am

The river Seine isn't as clean as officials would've hoped ahead of the Paris Olympics. 

Many have expressed concerns over the state of the waterway which will also play a major role in the opening ceremony, where teams will float downstream in barges. 

Europe correspondent Catherine Field told Mike Hosking that there's twice the maximum volume of e-coli in the water. 

She says nearly $2.4 billion has been spent trying to clean up the river in the past decade. 

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