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It seems the sporting conditions at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are not ideal — at least not for the swimmers. On Wednesday, an Olympic triathlete representing Belgium revealed that the water in France’s iconic Seine River — featured at the beginning of the women’s triathlon — is not exactly of the best quality. The triathlete, Jolien Vermeylen, said she ingested quite a bit of the river’s polluted water during the trial. “While swimming under the bridge, I felt and saw things that we shouldn’t think about too much,” Vermeylen said during an interview with Flemish news channel VTM, accordi…

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