Paris Summer Olympics are just a month away, but there is still a nasty controversy brewing over one of the spots serving as ...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted waterway was clean enough to host swimming competitions during the 2024 ...

The movement, cheekily dubbed #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin (I'll poo in the Seine on June 23), has gained traction after ... the Seine for Olympic swimmers and triathletes, as the river prepares ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Olympians dived into the River Seine on Wednesday after a pre-dawn notice informed ... frequently laden with sewage to one clean enough to swim in. Authorities spent 1.4 billion ...

Athletes dive into the Seine River from the Alexander III Bridge on the start of the first leg of the women's triathlon test event for the Paris Olympics this past summer. (Michel Euler/AP ...

PARIS--A hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy ... rule-breaking opening ceremony that unfurled along the Seine River. On-and-off showers did not seem to hamper the ...

Paris spent 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) to improve the water quality in the Seine so the swimming portion of the triathlon and the marathon swimming event next week could be held in the famed ...

Will it be possible to swim in the Seine in Paris 2024? Less than two weeks after it failed to offer the ... The most iconic river in France and home to the opening ceremony was provided as ...