Belgium withdrew from nan mixed relay that included swimming successful nan Seine.
Belgium did not return portion successful nan triathlon mixed relay successful Paris connected Monday, nan Belgian Olympic Committee said aft 1 of nan country's athletes became sick and withdrew from nan competition.
The withdrawal of nan jock Claire Michel prompted renewed statement astir nan h2o value of nan Seine contempt coming respective days aft she swam successful nan river.
Pierre Rabadan, lawman politician of Paris successful complaint of sport, nan Olympic and Paralympic Games and nan Seine, told FranceInfo connected Monday greeting that different athletes were sick successful nan Olympic colony who did not aquatics successful nan river.
"Nothing allows america to opportunity that location is simply a nexus pinch nan value of nan water," Rabadan said of Michel's illness, adding that they did not cognize nan cause.
Organisers had said that h2o value tests done nan time of nan individual triathlon races showed “very good” germs levels.
The h2o results connected Sunday nighttime indicated nan value astatine nan triathlon tract had improved complete caller hours and would beryllium wrong nan limits mandated by World Triathlon.
Daily h2o value tests measurement levels of faecal bacteria, including E. coli, successful nan Seine’s waters. World Triathlon’s water information guidelines and a 2006 European Union directive delegate qualitative values to a scope of E. coli levels.
World Triathlon’s aesculapian committee said it considers h2o value analysis, sanitary inspection and nan upwind forecast erstwhile determining whether to spell guardant pinch a race.
The decisions person mostly been made astatine early greeting meetings connected nan time of nan event. But successful announcing Sunday nighttime that nan title would hap Monday, organisers said they were responding to requests from athletes to springiness them much clip to prepare.
Leading up to nan individual triathlon events, h2o value concerns prompted organisers to cancel nan swimming information of 2 trial runs meant to let athletes to familiarise themselves pinch nan people and to hold nan men's title by a day.
Test swims successful nan Seine scheduled for Saturday and Sunday earlier nan triathlon mixed relay were besides cancelled because of germs levels successful nan water.
The Belgian Olympic committee and "Belgian Triathlon dream that lessons will beryllium learned for nan adjacent triathlon competitions astatine nan Olympic Games," nan organisations said successful a statement.
This includes making judge "training days, title days and nan title format, [are] clarified successful beforehand [to] guarantee that location is nary uncertainty for nan athletes, their entourage and nan supporters".
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