Paris Will Keep Seine River Open to Swimmers for 2 More Weeks

The city will extend its experiment with public bathing in the river until mid-September. Swimming there had been banned for a century over health risks.

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The River Seine Reopens for Public Swimming, After a Century

First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for locals to plunge in.

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