For the first time in more than 100 years, the Seine River in Paris has opened for swimming and recreation, following a $1.5 ...

For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists are getting ready to take a refreshing dip in the Seine.

For the first time since 1923, the Seine is open for public swimming at three designated sites in Paris through Aug. 31, ...

Currently open to 1,000 bathers daily in three different cordoned swimming locations for free, Parisians are flocking to ...

Following the Olympic cleanup, the public can now swim in the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, or East Paris.

(AP video by Alexander Turnbull, produced by Tom Nouvian) A woman dives in the water as people swim at the Pont Marie safe ...

The River Seine reopened to swimmers on Saturday for the first time since 1923, with dozens of people waiting for a dip in ...

Paris has reopened public swimming in the Seine River for the summer, allowing visitors to enjoy the waterway that was ...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swims in the Seine river Wednesday, July 17, 2024 in Paris, France. Credit: AP/Michel EulerA swimming test open to the public has been scheduled for mid-September ahead ...

Promises to return to those swimming days were made by Jacques Chirac, a former Paris mayor and later France’s president, who vowed in 1990 that in three years, “I will swim in the Seine in ...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swam in the long-polluted Seine River on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open Olympic swimming competitions. $1.5 billion has ...

Paris 2024 Olympic organizers want to bring back swimming events in the Seine River. But as David A. Andelman writes, “Nothing could impel me to take a swim in that water — not without a full ...