{"id":7295,"date":"2024-08-07T11:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2024-08-07T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:08:41","slug":"swimming-in-the-seine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/07\/swimming-in-the-seine\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming in the Seine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Olympic marathon swim test run is canceled over water quality concerns for Seine River<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2024-olympics-paris-seine-water-quality-ce72c89ddc8ffe0572774257f96b572f\">AP News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A test run meant to allow&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/2024-paris-olympic-games\">Olympic<\/a>&nbsp;athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2024-olympics-paris-seine-water-quality-66913280ee4a04e0e3012c3a2d7d3ef5\">water quality<\/a>&nbsp;in the Paris waterway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World Aquatics made the decision to cancel the exercise at an early morning meeting, the organization said in a statement. Fluctuating bacteria levels in the long-polluted waterway have been a constant concern throughout the Games with the swimming portion of the triathlon and the marathon swimming events both planned in the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-at-12.57.14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-at-12.57.14.png 712w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-at-12.57.14-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Swimming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic marathon swim test run is canceled over water quality concerns for Seine River AP News A test run meant to allow&nbsp;Olympic&nbsp;athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns about&nbsp;water quality&nbsp;in the Paris waterway. World Aquatics made the decision to cancel the exercise at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-07-at-12.57.14.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7301,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions\/7301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}