Emmanuel Macron promises to go swimming in the Seine... but does not say when.
“But I’m not going to give you the date, you might be there,” he joked on the occasion of the inauguration of the Olympic Village for the Paris Games. Triathlon and open water swimming events will start from the Alexandre-III bridge which connects the Grand Palais to the Invalides. Since 2016, the State and local authorities in Ile-de-France have invested around 1.4 billion euros to make the River and Marne swimmable.