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It's ok, they have a plan B, make it a duathlon instead of a triathlon. After all it only costed 1.4 billion euros to the tax payers, no biggie
by lm28469 2y ago
It's ok, they have a plan B, make it a duathlon instead of a triathlon. After all it only costed 1.4 billion euros to the tax payers, no biggie
- RandomThoughts3 2y agoIt’s not like the investment will have been in vain even in the triathlon is cancelled. Paris would have had to make them to comply with the upcoming European regulation on urban wastewater anyway (ok they would have had quite some time to do so but still) [1]. Plus, if we ranked all the investments made for the Olympic Games in history by how useful they were, I’m fairly sure a waste water holding basin would do pretty well. [1] https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/water/urban-wastewater_en https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/water/urban-wastewat...
- lm28469 2y agoOK, but then again it does not handle things such as... average rainfall
- tacticalturtle 2y agoBuilding the infrastructure to prevent raw sewage from spilling into the river after rain storms seems like a worthy goal for the tax payers, regardless of hitting the Olympic deadline. And it’s a goal of Parisian officials that has predated the Olympics by at least 30 years: > In 1990, then Paris mayor and later French President Jacques Chirac declared he would launch a major cleanup of the Seine, and swim in it https://time.com/6261729/seine-clean-up-paris-olympics-2024/ https://time.com/6261729/seine-clean-up-paris-olympics-2024/
- lm28469 2y agoSure, but as you can see it doesn't even work now that it's in peak demand, what do you think will happen when the Olympics are over an nobody talk about it ever again?