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Belgium has pulled out of the 2024 Paris Olympics blended relay triathlon at Paris 2024 after Claire Michel fell unwell.

The 35-year-old athlete competed within the ladies’s triathlon days in the past, ending thirty eighth a,d De Standaard reviews that she contracted E coli, through BBC Information.

The poor water high quality of the Seine was a serious difficulty mentioned earlier than and throughout the Olympics, and the reason for the boys’s triathlon to be delayed by a day. The follow swim for the blended relay was additionally postponed on Sunday (August 4) for the second day in a row. The blended relay race is because of happen on Monday morning (August 5).

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The Belgian Oympic Committee (COIB) didn’t reveal what sickness she was affected by, however that the choice to not take part was taken “in session with the athletes and the entourage,” including it hopes “that classes can be realized for future triathlon competitions.”

Exams have been being carried out every day on the water high quality within the Seine, the place extra competitions are nonetheless being held later within the week.

Swimming within the river had been banned for over 100 years due to excessive ranges of air pollution and the danger of illness A reported £1.2 billion had been spent on a regeneration challenge to make the Seine secure for swimming.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo just lately swam within the river to showcase that the river was secure.

Nevertheless, heavy rain in Paris on the primary days of the Olympics brought on the water high quality to say no.

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