Belgium will now not compete within the blended relay triathlon on the Paris Olympics after one in all its athletes who beforehand swam within the Seine River fell sick, the nation’s Olympic committee mentioned.
Claire Michel “is unfortunately ill and will have to withdraw from the competition,” the Olympic committee and the Interfederal Committee mentioned in an announcement.
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Belgian Claire Michel pictured in motion through the ladies’s particular person triathlon on the Olympic Video games on July 31, 2024, in Paris. (JASPER JACOBS/BELGA MAG/AFP through Getty Photos)
Michel competed within the ladies’s triathlon on Wednesday after days of coaching postponements over issues concerning the water high quality within the Seine River. She completed thirty eighth.
Paris 2024 organizers mentioned the triathlon would nonetheless go on at 8 a.m. native time. Belgian officers didn’t specify the kind of sickness that Michel suffered, however issues have been raised concerning the water high quality within the days and weeks earlier than the triathlon competitions began.
World Triathlon, the Worldwide Olympic Committee and Olympic organizers together with regional and climate authorities reviewed the water high quality, and the outcomes indicated that situations had improved in latest hours and can be throughout the limits mandated by World Triathlon.
Claire Michel of Belgium is assisted by Lotte Miller of Norway after the ladies’s particular person triathlon competitors on the Summer time Olympics in Tokyo on July 27, 2021. (AP Photograph/David Goldman)
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Below World Triathlon tips, E. coli ranges as much as 1,000 colony-forming models per 100 milliliters could be thought of “good” and may permit competitors to maneuver ahead. Every day water checks have taken place within the Seine.
Belgian Olympic officers expressed “hopes that lessons will be learned for future triathlon competitions at the Olympic Games. We are thinking here of the guarantee of training days, competition days and the competition format, which must be clarified in advance and ensure that there is no uncertainty for the athletes, entourage and supporters.”
Australia’s Natalie Van Coevorden (15), Belgium’s Claire Michel (5) and Kazakhstan’s Ekaterina Shabalina (32) compete within the swim leg of the ladies’s particular person triathlon competitors on the Summer time Olympics in Paris on July 31, 2024. (AP Photograph/David Goldman)
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Water high quality issues prompted the cancellation of the swimming portion of two check runs. Check swims for the blended relay have been additionally canceled Saturday and Sunday due to the micro organism ranges.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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