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For example, Clare Michael from Belgium was hospitalized after a bacterial infection with E. coli, and the team withdraws from the mixed relay.
Hungarian Bettina Fabian “we couldn’t really focus on the race” – the Seine’s rush to detox meant that many athletes had to continue to intend to not swallow water, not medals.
Some practice sessions were given a green light, but all races went ahead. Perhaps it shows that government spending is more about spreading the success of the environmental agenda than having a lasting positive impact on Seine water quality.
If the project was really about environmental outcomes, athlete welfare would have been prioritized over attempts to brand the Seine as being able to swim. Perhaps, contrary to the arrival of global media, the Seine cleanups “will participate in their own race.
Swimmers generally remain divided into Seine water quality. Silver medalist Mosha Johnson argues, “it will always be dramatic (in the media).”
Fee
However, the Paris Organising Committee states that they “do not recognize the established link between disease and Seine water quality,” claiming that water quality is within the threshold established by global aquatics across all four test points that day.
The Paris government, hidden under the global sense of the Parisian Games, had other fish to stir fry.
Another, perhaps more long-term motivation behind the Seine cleansing, was to revive aquatic creatures that suffered to the point when only four species of fish were recorded in the city in the 1970s. The Olympic Accelerator guarantees that 36 species of fish currently live in the Seine.
Similarly, important efforts have been made to restore natural riverbank conditions through repotting vegetation and reintroduction of native species, including salmon and eels.
On the other hand, fish were not the only visitors expected in the river. Parisians argue that money should have been spent on reducing the high costs of the housing crisis experienced by citizens.
Priority
In fact, people have used the hashtag “Ipooin theSeine” to pledge “poo” to the Seine as a form of protest against the costs.
This attempt to sabotage the success of the environment helps demonstrate that the Seine may not have been the most pressing problem the city has faced. People were willing to use protests as self-harm to doubt the resource imbalances experienced by the Seines in the face of the Olympics.
This relates to the cultural incentives that motivate this scheme. It served as a great opportunity to use the Olympics to promote Paris to the world.
You can find that other green schemes in Paris are relatively small compared to the efforts they made to the Seine, including the $110 million scheme to replant hedges in 2024.
If the Seine cleaning is not maintained after the Olympics, have you been wasted at the expense of other high priorities?
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It should also be considered that the huge wastewater storage tank built near ustourlitzstation was intended to be used as a rainwater buffer, but the fluctuating bacteria in the Seine are a result of high rainfall.
Decontamination of the Seine was undoubtedly essential, but the lack of funding for other environmental campaigns suggests that green policies could only be prioritized if they could propagate under branding on another issue. In this case, the Seines must be used for the Olympics.
If you can take the Seine as an example, there is a troubling significance for advances in other green agendas that do not have the same propaganda incentives.
Nevertheless, there may be some cautious optimism about this project.
Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, has very clean water quality, but like in 1995, the same problems as the Seine were ramping. A government investment of approximately $440 million has exploited overflow barriers and underground storage barriers.
Therefore, considering the size of the investment in Paris, a long-term revival of the Seine should be possible.
welfare
In addition to this, some rivers in Copenhagen are much shorter than the Seine, covering only the longest, 7.5km.
Paris’s vice-mayor of sports, Pierre Labadin claims that the Olympics served as an “accelerator” for the cleaning of the Seine, which officially began in 2016.
This creates complexity as to whether or not the effort will be maintained now that the game is over. Does loss of media attention have a negative effect on the Seine?
Is there a reason why Seine took a global event to truly prioritize it? If the scheme’s funding had been intentionally applied a few years ago, there may have been no concerns about athlete welfare at the 2024 Olympics.
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Perhaps the protests of people in Paris can tell you something about this. Unless cultural incentives are in effect, the greening issue occurs at the surface level.
Regardless of reasoning, it is true that Paris is committed to a climate-positive Olympics: it is the most environmentally friendly in Olympic history. The measures adopted included double the amount of plant-based foods offered in the athletic village, along with the use of solar panels.
Emissions have been halved from the previous Olympic Games, but there was an estimated 1.75 million tonnes of CO2 compared to 3.5 million tonnes of Tokyo in the 2020s, but it cannot be denied that this amount of pollution is unsustainable in the long term.
It is important to remember the dark side of the Olympics – if humanity has joy, celebration, and goodwill, the costs are paid by our environment.
Only time can tell whether the legacy of the 2024 Parisiolimation has been able to change the poor relationship with the Olympic environment.
This author
Imogen Wellings is a student at the University of Richard Korea in Sussex. She quickly studied British literature at Warwick University after seeing her career in journalism. She is particularly interested in securing funding for carbon emissions and green policy.
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