Triathlon Mixed Relay Swim Training Session Canceled over Seine Water Quality

 Athletes compete in the swimming stage in the Seine during the men's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in central Paris on July 31, 2024. (AFP)
Athletes compete in the swimming stage in the Seine during the men's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in central Paris on July 31, 2024. (AFP)
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Triathlon Mixed Relay Swim Training Session Canceled over Seine Water Quality

 Athletes compete in the swimming stage in the Seine during the men's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in central Paris on July 31, 2024. (AFP)
Athletes compete in the swimming stage in the Seine during the men's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in central Paris on July 31, 2024. (AFP)

Paris Olympics organizers have canceled Sunday's swimming training session for the triathlon mixed relay event after recent heavy rain affected water quality levels in the Seine river.

The decision was made late on Saturday after tests showed water quality did not meet the required threshold following rain on July 31 and Aug. 1.

The mixed relay race is scheduled for Monday.

"We are expecting an improvement on the conditions in the next hours, but not to a level to which the swim familiarization planned for tomorrow can take place," organizers said in a statement.

"In view of these conditions, we have decided to cancel the swim familiarization tonight to avoid late communication to athletes."

Pollution in the Seine after heavy rains had caused the men's race to be postponed for a day, after swimming practice sessions were canceled two days in a row.



Afghanistan Judoka Positive for Steroid in 3rd Doping Case at Olympics

Spectators cheer holding French flags ahead of the men's +100 kg final match in the team judo competition, as they watch from a fan zone set up at the Club France, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Spectators cheer holding French flags ahead of the men's +100 kg final match in the team judo competition, as they watch from a fan zone set up at the Club France, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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Afghanistan Judoka Positive for Steroid in 3rd Doping Case at Olympics

Spectators cheer holding French flags ahead of the men's +100 kg final match in the team judo competition, as they watch from a fan zone set up at the Club France, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Spectators cheer holding French flags ahead of the men's +100 kg final match in the team judo competition, as they watch from a fan zone set up at the Club France, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A judoka from Afghanistan tested positive at the Paris Olympics for the anabolic steroid that sprinter Ben Johnson used at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Mohammad Samim Faizad gave a sample at his opening bout that tested positive for stanozolol, the International Testing Agency said Saturday. It was the third failed drug test at the Paris Games.

He lost his only bout in the men’s 81-kilogram class to Wachid Borchashvili of Austria on Tuesday.

Faizad turns 22 during the Olympics, from which he has been removed. He was the only athlete based in Afghanistan on its team of three men and three women in Paris.