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Paris Olympics: Swimmers return to the Seine for the first time in a century

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PARIS — After six years, $1.5 billion, innumerable tests, cascades of protests, political grandstanding, countless prayers and hopes, multiple delays, and a thunderstorm just hours before the start … swimmers are finally in the Seine once again.

The competitors in the women’s triathlon at the 2024 Olympics went into the water at 8 a.m., the first time an Olympic event has been held in the Seine in 124 years.