Triathlon at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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Triathlon at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

 

Paris (FRA) - 31 July 2024 - 5 August 2024

 

 

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Edited July 31, 2024 by Sindo

[Benolympique 2,398]

SELECTION TEAM FRANCE OLYMPIC GAMES 2024

[Oscar 46]

 Team announced:

 

Men

 

Antonio Serrat

Roberto Sánchez

Alberto González

 

Women

 

Anna Godoy

Miriam Casillas

 

 

[Swewi 429]

How can they even think about having an olympic triathlon without swimming if the Seine water qualify is too bad? Then it is another sport. Better than to find another spot or have time trial in the swimming pool followed by a pursuit in duathlon. World idea than too have a 28 km long 50 km cross country skiing as in Beijing

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 7/8/2024 at 7:04 PM, Swewi said:

How can they even think about having an olympic triathlon without swimming if the Seine water qualify is too bad? Then it is another sport. Better than to find another spot or have time trial in the swimming pool followed by a pursuit in duathlon. World idea than too have a 28 km long 50 km cross country skiing as in Beijing

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To  be fair, in Beijing it was a matter of extreme weather and real force majeure, the Seine problem has been known for a long, long time now..

[Grassmarket 3,626]

  On 7/8/2024 at 7:04 PM, Swewi said:

How can they even think about having an olympic triathlon without swimming if the Seine water qualify is too bad? Then it is another sport. Better than to find another spot or have time trial in the swimming pool followed by a pursuit in duathlon. World idea than too have a 28 km long 50 km cross country skiing as in Beijing

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Seemingly the excuse is that the ITU’s own rules do recognise a duathlon as being legit in case of etc etc.  And I guess the organisers have promised a certain number of gratis-to-the public events.  But you’re right, they’ve had a whole year to sort out Plan B.

[Grassmarket 3,626]

More about the water quality issue.  You've probably seen elsewhere that swim training has had to be cancelled.  However, according to this BBC story, the horrible, terrible, awful idea of going to a duathlon has been dropped.  Options now are to either postpone one or more races, or to transfer the whole show to some pretty, impressionist painting-type village well upstream from major population centres, industrial chemical factories or slaughterhouses.  

 

Should the water quality not reach the required standard, the triathlon events could be postponed for a few days or moved to Vaires-sur-Marne, on the Marne river east of Paris.

 

Olympic triathlon: River Seine pollution forces familiarisation to be scrapped - BBC Sport

Edited July 28, 2024 by Grassmarket

[Olympicsnell 300]

Embarrassing for the hosts if it doesn't go ahead as advertised, almost like they were told years ago this wasn't a good idea 

[heywoodu 15,355]

Today's trainings have also been cancelled, because it's still too gross.

[tirtha22 234]

  On 7/29/2024 at 8:51 AM, heywoodu said:

Today's trainings have also been cancelled, because it's still too gross.

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What will happen in the final event? Will they scrap the swimming part?