Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. The women's and men's triathlon took place on 31 July in the river Seine. As the Olympic triathlon events took place Wednesday ...

Humans learned the hard way in 1908 that sometimes classical conditioning can come back to bite you in the arse – or, as it ...

One of the masterminds behind the clean-up of the Seine in Paris, making it suitable for swimmers, believes the same could be ...

NOAA and ADF&G forecast that throughout the 2025 commercial salmon season, seine, gillnet and troll fishermen across Southeast Alaska will harvest a “point estimate” of 29 million pink sal ...

UPDATE (July 30 at 9:00 a.m. ET): After two training sessions for the men's individual race were canceled due to high pollution levels in the River Seine (where the open swimming leg is to take place ...

This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most every morning at nine, the emergency responders assigned to the Seine pull on their wet suits and swim around the ...

PARIS--With the Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in? Triathlon and marathon swimming are ...

Scientific observers say the whale appears to be visibly malnourished French rescuers desperately trying to save a beluga whale trapped in the River Seine say there is little hope it will survive.

With a year to go to the Olympics, Paris is in the final phase of a historic clean-up which will soon see swimmers and divers back in the River Seine. Banned for a century because of the filthy ...

You won’t have much trouble finding the Seine, as it flows directly through the heart of Paris. The river is perhaps one of the most famous waterways in the world and an attraction in itself.

It’s just cool enough to make a stroll along the Seine, arm-in-arm with your girlfriend, your wife, or someone else’s wife or girlfriend, a bracing pleasure. French tennis officials ...

An curved arrow pointing right. High levels of E. coli in the Seine River postponed the 2024 Olympics men's triathlon on July 30 after the French government put $1.5 billion into cleaning it.