The Eiffel Tower behind the Seine River on July 30, 2024.
World Triathlon said the men's triathlon would move back a day, to July 31, 2024, to give pollution in the Seine a chance to subside.
  • The Olympic men's triathlon was rescheduled due to water pollution in the River Seine.
  • World Triathlon said water tests did not meet its threshold for swimming.
  • If the pollution doesn't subside, swimming might get dropped, leaving it as a duathlon.

Olympic triathletes might have to become duathletes because Paris' Seine River is too polluted for swimming.

World Triathlon, the international governing body for the Olympic and Paralympic sport of triathlon, said on Tuesday that the men's triathlon would be postponed due to poor water quality.