Rainfall on Sunday temporarily shut down three Seine swimming sites in Paris according to the city hall website, just...

Rainfall on Sunday...

Rainfall on Sunday...

Paris officials opened three swimming sites along the Seine River this weekend, though rain led them to close the sites after a day.

Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine on Saturday as authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923 after an...

Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine as authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923 after an extensive clean-up...

Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine as authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923 after an extensive clean-up...

About 1,000 swimmers a day will be allowed to use three bathing sites after €1.4bn clean-up programme

First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for locals to plunge in.

A year after the long-polluted River Seine was cleaned for the 2024 Paris Olympics, French officials opened multiple sites for locals to go swimming.