As expected, and according to the decision taken by the organizers early Wednesday morning, the women's and men's triathlon competitions, which were postponed once on Tuesday, took place today at the Paris Olympics. Because the organizers announced that the results of the water test on Wednesday morning indeed met the health and quality standards.
The announcement was met with joy from the waiting athletes on the one hand and some skepticism on the other. How so? Well, a year ago, the water quality in the Segna River raised serious doubts about the organization of triathlon and open water swimming events. Although the French spent more than a billion euros to make the water cleaner, several people fell ill even after last year's test race. At the Olympics, only the training sessions and then the men's competition had to be postponed on Tuesday due to the degree of pollution, but by dawn on Wednesday the quality values had suddenly changed in a positive direction, thus avoiding a global scandal, the women's Olympics and then the men's triathlon field could start on Wednesday.
There is no reason to doubt the test results, but there are already signs that all is not well with Szayna. Sportbible.com wrote that several competitors fell ill at the end of Wednesday's race.But the worst in the men's field was Tyler Mislauchuk, who finished ninth. The Canadian athlete fell ill live on air.
“I didn’t come here to finish in the top 10, but I did everything I could. I tried, and I don’t regret anything. It’s true that I vomited 10 times at the end of the race, but it was worth it for this result,” said Mstislavchuk, who has been ill since.
“We were puppets in the directors' puppet theater.”
According to Belgian Martin van Riel, the organizers were only interested in organizing the competition, and the health of the athletes was not important to anyone.
“They treated us like puppets in a puppet theatre,” he wrote on his social media page. “If our health was the most important thing to them, this event would have been moved elsewhere long ago due to the pollution of the Seine.”
There was a comment under the post that Parisians couldn't go to the toilet for two days, so the Seine River's water pollution was at the permissible level. We can't yet judge whether this sentence is more funny or a very sad reality.
