Being a veteran world-class swimmer — and cyclist, and runner — Taylor Spivey has dealt with worse than Paris’ River Seine.
(Bertrand Guay / AFP via Getty Images)Standards for water quality differ in Europe than in the United States.
“And that can be associated, on one hand, with the clement weather, dry weather.
A month ago, we, basically, we hadn’t had yet a single day where the water quality had been acceptable for the whole year.
Right now, probably, today, I would go swim.”GO DEEPER Team USA has owned the Olympic swimming pool — is that about to change in Paris?
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