Belgium will not compete within the combined relay triathlon on the Paris Olympics after one among its athletes who beforehand swam within the Seine River fell sick, the nation’s Olympic committee stated.
Claire Michel “is sadly sick and should withdraw from the competitors,” the Olympic committee and the Interfederal Committee stated in a press release.
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Belgian Claire Michel is proven throughout the ladies’s particular person triathlon on the Olympic Video games in Paris on July 31, 2024. (JASPER JACOBS/BELGA MAG/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Michel competed within the ladies’s triathlon on Wednesday after days of coaching postponements over issues concerning the water high quality within the Seine River. She completed thirty eighth.
Paris 2024 organizers stated the triathlon would nonetheless go on at 8 a.m. native time. Belgian officers didn’t specify the kind of sickness that Michel suffered, however issues have been raised concerning the water high quality within the days and weeks earlier than the triathlon competitions began.
World Triathlon, the Worldwide Olympic Committee and Olympic organizers together with regional and climate authorities reviewed the water high quality, and the outcomes indicated that situations had improved in latest hours and could be inside the limits mandated by World Triathlon.
Claire Michel of Belgium is assisted by Lotte Miller of Norway after the ladies’s particular person triathlon competitors on the Summer season Olympics in Tokyo on July 27, 2021. (AP Photograph/David Goldman)
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Underneath World Triathlon pointers, E. coli ranges as much as 1,000 colony-forming items per 100 milliliters may be thought-about “good” and might enable competitors to maneuver ahead. Day by day water checks have taken place within the Seine.
Belgian Olympic officers expressed “hopes that classes will likely be realized for future triathlon competitions on the Olympic Video games. We’re pondering right here of the assure of coaching days, competitors days and the competitors format, which have to be clarified prematurely and make sure that there is no such thing as a uncertainty for the athletes, entourage and supporters.”
Australia’s Natalie Van Coevorden (15), Belgium’s Claire Michel (5) and Kazakhstan’s Ekaterina Shabalina (32) compete within the swim leg of the ladies’s particular person triathlon competitors on the Summer season Olympics in Paris on July 31, 2024. (AP Photograph/David Goldman)
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Water high quality issues prompted the cancellation of the swimming portion of two check runs. Take a look at swims for the combined relay have been additionally canceled Saturday and Sunday due to the micro organism ranges.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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