French sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra took a symbolic ... France. Ever since swimming in the Seine was banned in 1923 due to pollution levels, French politicians have promised to make the ...

The route along the Seine river took teams along the same waterway where protesters were thrown by Paris police during a demonstration in support of Algerian independence from France on 17 October ...

Weather permitting, the river will be the star of the opening ceremony of the Olympics on July 26 and will then host the triathlon and the open water swimming. Oudea-Castera, dressed in a body ...