VIDEO. Paris 2024 Olympics: Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra slips before swimming in the Seine

La ministre des sports s’est fait une petite frayeur. Capture d'écran Twitter (X).

La ministre des Sports et des JO Amélie Oudéa-Castéra s’est baignée samedi matin dans la Seine, selon des images diffusées par BFMTV, quelques jours avant la baignade programmée de la maire PS de Paris Anne Hidalgo.

The Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games took a swim in a diving suit in the center of Paris, near the Pont des Invalides, not very far from the place where the Olympic events are to take place.

She did not escape the slide when entering the river, accompanied by the brand new standard bearer of the French Paralympic team, the paratriathlete Alexis Hanquinquant.< /p>

Baignade dans la Seine: les images de la ministre des Sports plongeant dans le fleuve à Paris à 13 jours des JO pic.twitter.com/xzZu3K13so

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She is therefore a few days ahead of Anne Hidalgo with whom she has a notoriously bad relationship and who has planned to swim on July 17 if the water quality allows it. The Olympic triathlon and open water swimming events must take place at the Pont Alexandre III.

The water quality of the Seine meets standards

After several bursts of poor results due to very rainy weather, local authorities announced Friday good results from the water analysis, two weeks on the dot from the start of the Olympics.

The organizers of the Paris Olympics as well as the State, the town hall and the regional prefecture are on edge due to this very rainy weather since the spring which has caused rehearsals of the opening ceremony as well as training for the French open water swimming team.

The quality of the water in the Seine was consistent with bathing standards "eleven days, or ten days" out of the last twelve, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the Olympic Games and the Seine said on RFI on Friday. "We hope that he will do a little better but we have no worries at all about the possible holding of the competitions, which will take place", he added .