“The waters of the Seine? It was beautifully ‘dirty’, an unspeakable ‘troi**o’ came out… Leaves, copper, plastic were coming out…”: Ginevra Taddeucci said this to the microphones of Rai Sport after winning gold in the women’s 10 km at the European Open Water Swimming Championships. Words of denunciation against the country of Emmanuel Macron. The 29-year-old long-distance swimmer from Lastra a Signa was straightforward about the conditions in which she found herself competing: “Paris brings me luck, at the Games I had won a bronze. But two years ago, the race course was cleaner,” she said immediately after coming out of the water.
If for the French the Seine is swimmable, and therefore can be raced in, for Taddeucci (and not only her) the situation is a bit different. “I had everything on my goggles – the new European champion recounted – I saw more plastic here… It may be biodegradable, it will go away. But today it was worse than two years ago.” The same complaint came a few days ago from Gregorio Paltrinieri: “The Seine scares us, we are afraid of Escherichia coli, of rotten water. At the Olympic Games, 30 of us started for the open water and 10 ended up in the hospital. I came from exceptional pool races: silver in the 1500, bronze in the 800.” Paris, however, goes on its way. “We do tests twice a day. So far, the results are excellent,” the French swimming federation had emphasized before the two races.
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Returning to the competition, Taddeucci said she was satisfied with the result achieved: “I am happy, Paris has always been a lucky stop for me. Here I won my first World Cup medal, then there was the Olympics (where she won bronze, ed)… And now we are here, the gold in the 10 km was missing. I am a bit sorry that it was not a particularly competitive race, the strongest were missing, I felt like I was in the water alone…”. And again: “It was complicated to swim alone in the last few weeks, I trained a lot and then training alone is tough. I hoped to come here and do something, then obviously I was anxious about losing.” In the race “I tried a few things, without particular ambushes I could do a bit what I wanted. I am happy, it was easier than expected,” she concluded.
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