Sixty-five ironmen jumped into the Seine River in Paris, France.The Paris Organizing Committee of the 2024 Olympic Games and the World Triathlon Union hosted the women’s individual triathlon test event on the Seine River in Paris, France, on Sunday.The men’s event will follow on the 18th and the mixed relay on the 19th.Organizing committees of the Olympic Games, in consultation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and sport-specific International Federations (IFs), hold test events at venues that will host actual Olympic events a year before the Games begin in order to see how they will be run.An open-water swimming test event scheduled for May 5-6 in the Seine River was canceled due to “poor water quality.”Following the recent heavy rainfall in Paris, the water quality of the Seine remained below the acceptable standard to protect the health of swimmers,” the International Swimming Federation explained at the time.”We are determined to prove that the Seine can host the Olympic Games,” said the Paris Organizing Committee. “This year, in late July and early August, there was an unusually high amount of rain in Paris. In normal weather, the water quality of the Seine passes the reference point.”After the open-water swimming test event was canceled due to poor water quality, the organizers were determined 스포츠토토존 to hold a triathlon test event.”The triathlon will be an important starting point to prove that ‘the Seine is swimmable,'” the organizers said.”The water quality of the Seine was tested several times a day leading up to the start of the women’s race,” the World Triathlon Union said, “and if the water quality deteriorated on race day, we had the option of switching to a duathlon (cycling and running) format without swimming.”Prior to the event on Sunday, the Seine was deemed “raceable” and 65 of the 67 women’s individual competitors actually competed.The event was a 1,500-meter swim, a 40-kilometer bike ride, and a 10-kilometer run, according to Olympic individual event rules.Beth Porter (GBR) won the race in 1:51:40 after swimming the Seine and cutting the final tape at the Alexandre III Bridge, ahead of Cassandre Borg (FRA), who finished in 1:51:56.”I’ve enjoyed every minute of today,” Potter told the BBC, “and I’m pleased to have the energy left in the tank.”