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Daniel Wiffen in motion throughout Paris Olympics 2024© AFP
Irish double medal-winning Olympian Daniel Wiffen stated Monday he had “rushed” to hospital in Paris with a abdomen bug, two days after collaborating within the marathon swimming within the River Seine. The 800m swimming champion and 1500m bronze medallist was meant to be carrying the Irish flag throughout Sunday’s closing ceremony, however didn’t seem. “Thanks everybody who reached out, I am extremely disillusioned to overlook out on the chance to be flag bearer final evening,” Wiffen wrote on X within the early hours of Monday. “Yesterday I rushed to hospital as I used to be very unwell with a bug that I’m being handled for, and am feeling higher now.” Wiffen took half within the males’s 10-kilometre marathon swim within the River Seine on Friday, ending 18th with a time of 1 hour 58 minutes.
He didn’t hyperlink his sickness to the water and organisers stress that well being issues shouldn’t be robotically attributed to the river.
No less than three athletes out of greater than 100 who took half within the males’s and ladies’s triathlons on July 31 reported sickness after diving into the Seine in the course of the swimming leg of the occasion.
They included Belgian Belgian triathlete Claire Michel who additionally wanted medical care after struggling three days of vomiting and diarrhoea as a result of a virus.
The Seine was dogged by air pollution issues in the course of the Olympics regardless of a 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) improve to enhance the Paris sewerage and water remedy system.
On account of summer time rains and storms, which result in untreated waste water being discharged into the river, the Seine failed checks on a number of events.
Of 11 days of occasions and coaching scheduled in its murky waters, solely 5 bought the inexperienced gentle.
Paris 2024 organisers insist that the 2 micro organism monitored by well being authorities and sports activities federations — E.Coli and enterococci — had been at acceptable ranges when the out of doors swimming occasions passed off.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is planning to open three public bathing spots within the river subsequent yr as a part of what she sees as a key a part of the Olympics legacy within the Metropolis of Mild.
“If like 99 % of the athletes haven’t any issues, I believe it is tremendous,” German triathlete German Tim Hellwig informed reporters after profitable the combined relay occasion on August 5.
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