23 Aug 2023

Olympic swimming in the Seine

From Nights, 9:45 pm on 23 August 2023

Swimming in it was banned for a century, but Paris has announced it will reopen the River Seine for swimming competition during the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic games, and then allow public swimming. Pierre Rabadan, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of sports, talks to Mark about the costly and complex cleanup of one of the world's most romantic rivers.