- cross-posted to:
- sports@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- sports@beehaw.org
The men’s Olympic triathlon planned for Tuesday has been postponed over concerns about water quality in Paris’ Seine River, where the swimming portion of the race was supposed to take place.
Organizers said they will try to hold the men’s triathlon Wednesday instead. The women’s competition is also scheduled on Wednesday, but both are subject to water tests. Friday is also planned as a backup date.
But Meteo-France, the French weather service, was forecasting storms Tuesday night, light rain Wednesday afternoon and storms Thursday, which could complicate rescheduling the events.
The olympic Surf competition is happening on the other side of the World in Tahiti. Are you telling me France does not have a backup lake to do this in anywhere? After 6 years of planning? Do it in lake Geneva or Étang de Berre…jfc
The whole point of a triathlon is to run, bike, and swim. It won’t be easy moving it elsewhere and closing the roadways, setting up security, and shuttling participants and staff on short notice.
Hopefully they have a Plan B.
Their plan B last time I heard was to make it a
biathlonduathlon without swimming…which is just a joke.Isn’t that called a duathlon to distinguish it from the winter Olympic event?
The one that’s all… ski ski, pew pew pew, ski ski ski? How did that one get started…
You see, there was this Norwegian hunter with an AMD processor who liked both men and women…