Anne Hidalgo swims in the Seine, Macron absent

The Mayor of Paris has finally taken the plunge! Anne Hidalgo swam in the cleaned-up Seine to prove Olympians probably won't get sick.

Amid the many ways Paris has chosen to show off its eco-friendliness to the gaggle of amateur athletes about to descend on the City of Light, not even the poorly designed housing has raised as many eyebrows as the idea of hosting swimming events in a historic sewage channel. — Read the rest

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