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After days of delays and uncertainty over water quality in the Seine River, the women’s and men’s Olympic triathlon races will go forward on Wednesday, including the swimming portion in the famed Paris waterway. The decision to go ahead with the Seine swim for the triathlon competitions is a big win for the city, Olympics organisers and the athletes. Officials undertook an ambitious plan, including €1.4 billion in infrastructure improvements, to clean up the long-polluted Seine and have been steadfast in their insistence that the swimming portion of the triathlon and the marathon swimming even…

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