The 2024 Olympics will open with a promise. On the eve of the Games, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced that she will take a swim in the Seine in July, before the inauguration of the global event and a year before the planned opening to the public of bathing areas in the river that runs through Paris.
"We will swim in the Seine", This is Hidalgo's statement who wants to show that the river's waters are no longer polluted and have been purified in recent years. The mayor admitted it at Hotel de Ville, the Paris city hall. Here, during her greetings at the Municipality, she invited the regional prefect Marc Guillaume to accompany her in this historic gesture. Hidalgo stated this during the New Year's greetings ceremony at the Hotel de Ville, the Paris city hall. The mayor then invited the area prefect, Marc Guillame, to accompany her for this "historic dive". Practiced during the Ancien Régime, bathing in the Seine was banned in the stretch that runs through Paris about a century ago, in 1923. The first goal is now to make some parts of the river swimmable by the 2024 Paris Olympics, scheduled from July 26 to August 11.
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