May 18,
The 60-day countdown to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games begins.
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Preparations for the Paris Olympics,
Enter the final sprint.
The surface of the Seine River as a venue for the competition
But it's full of garbage and E. coli
Six million rats and bed bugs roam the city
There are concerns about whether the virus will be transmitted to athletes and swimmers
Everyone is thinking:
Can this Olympics really happen?
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The water quality of the Seine is controversial, can you really swim?
Recently, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, which will be held on the Seine on July 26, may not be held on the Seine due to the high security risks that may exist.
In less than 100 days, he said that other alternative plans are also being studied.
In addition to the opening ceremony, the Seine, the "mother river" of Paris, will also serve as a venue for the Olympic triathlon and open water swimming sessions, and it has been announced that it will be open to public swimmers in 2025.
Speaking of which, the Seine is also an old face in Olympic history.
As early as the 1900 Paris Olympics, there were seven swimming events on the Seine.
But later, due to the discharge of industrial sewage, domestic wastewater, and some garbage, the Seine became more and more polluted.
As early as 1923, the government decreed a ban on swimming in the Seine. For the first time in 100 years, at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Seine will once again be open for swimming. However, the issue of water quality has been controversial.
Today, the Seine is still mossy and mossy
Seven days ago, the Seine was still flooded with garbage.
According to reports, the Surfrider Foundation, a non-governmental organization, conducted 14 water quality tests at the competition venues of triathlon and open water swimming competitions between September last year and March this year, and the results of 13 of the tests showed that:
There are a variety of bacteria present in the water of the Seine
Especially E. coli
Its content far exceeds the standards set by the International Swimming Federation
On April 16, due to the "concern" of the water quality of the Seine River in France, in order to prevent athletes competing in the Seine Triathlon at the Paris Olympics from getting sick due to water quality problems, the head of the British team, Mike Cavendish, put in place a strict protection plan, including the use of disinfectant water and probiotics.
Michael said British triathletes need to be "sanitized from head to toe" before they can touch food or drink after finishing their race on the Seine. According to Mike, the main reason for getting sick is not necessarily drinking something in the water. Coming out of the water, a person's hands come into contact with the mouth and eyes, and the disease can also occur.
But in the face of such skepticism, the city of Paris only explained early that heavy rainfall in the first quarter of this year was the main factor contributing to the deterioration of water quality. Due to the old sewer system in Paris, if there is too much rainfall, the rainwater will overflow the pipes and pour into the Seine, along with the sewage.
Paris Organising Committee President Tony Estanguet also recently said that if rainy weather during the Olympics affects the water quality of the Seine, the competition involved will be postponed or the triathlon competition will be changed to two.
This is a photo taken by netizens on April 6, 2024, when the flooding in Paris, France, and the water level of the Seine River rose.
In order to make the Games a success, Paris is intensively undergoing large-scale infrastructure renovations, including new rainwater reservoirs and wastewater pipes; 23,000 homes and 260 houseboats will be connected to the sewerage system to stop discharging sewage directly into the Seine;
At present, the Seine River water quality cleaning project has entered its final stage.
On March 13, 2024 local time, in Paris, France, a giant underground rainwater reservoir under construction is used to store rainwater when heavy rains hit.
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Located near the Austerlitz train station on the left bank of the Sennar, the giant underground stormwater reservoir with a capacity equivalent to 20 Olympic swimming pools will soon be put into use to store rainwater in the event of heavy rains in case the drainage system becomes clogged and the sewage flows directly into the Seine.
The city of Paris issued a statement earlier saying that Parisians have always wanted to swim in the Seine, and this wish is about to come true.
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With only a single cardboard shell bed, Paris has come up with a trick to prevent athletes from contracting venereal diseases
Recently, the Paris Organising Committee of the Olympic Games unveiled the internal structure of the athletes' quarters in the Olympic Village.
The Olympic Village for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been officially delivered. Located on the northern outskirts of Petite Paris, the Olympic Village consists of 82 buildings and about 3,000 apartments.
There is no air conditioning in the athletes' village of this Olympic Games, you must know that the high temperature in France last year killed many people, for this reason, many countries said that they would bring their own air conditioning to Paris!
The beds in the Olympic Village are made of cardboard!
First of all, the interior of the athletes' rooms is simple and refreshing, and the layout and supporting facilities look no different from ordinary single dormitories. The only thing that makes people feel a little dazzling is the slightly thin cardboard shell bed.
These paper single beds, which are only 85-90 cm wide, are only wide enough for one person to sleep, and it has become a big deal to turn over after lying flat.
There is no doubt that this kind of single bed cannot withstand too much tossing, and more than one person may cause collapse or even breakage. The bed supplier for the Olympic Village this time is Airweave, a bedding brand that provided paper shell beds for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
That's right, the 2024 Paris Olympics will also feature Japanese "cardboard beds".
Later, after the price disclosed by the media,
The price of Japanese cardboard beds and Chinese smart beds is almost the same!!
The price of cardboard bed for the Japanese Olympics - RMB 8000
The price of smart beds for the Beijing Winter Olympics - RMB 5800
In the end, the French Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris chose cardboard beds!!
The reason is that the paper bed is green enough!
Paris 2024 will reduce carbon emissions by 55% compared to London 2012; The food for the Olympics is 100% green, and 100% of the electricity used for the Olympic facilities is renewable energy.
By the way, let's talk about some other strange things about the Paris Olympics, the French government has launched an anti-fraud App for this Olympic Games to prevent taxi drivers, hotels, restaurants, etc. from charging or defrauding tourists, which is how unconfident it is in its own people.
In fact, for the safety of the Olympic Games, France has asked 45 countries for help, hoping to borrow 2,000 police officers to maintain law and order in Paris.
Domestic netizens are also complaining:
I don't know if France went the other way around, first saved up everyone's disappointment, and finally made a splash?
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If you do the math, there are still 60 days to prepare from today to the opening of the Paris Olympics.
Here, I can only wish athletes from all countries a smooth competition. After all, it has been hard to prepare for four years, and it is only a serious thing to refresh your grades on the soil of Paris.
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