First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for ...

Explore the Seine River, the lifeblood of Paris, in this visual tour along its most iconic bridges and surrounding monuments.

To ensure the river was Olympic-ready, Paris invested $1.5 billion into the cleanup effort, known as the “Swimming Plan.” As a result, more than 20,000 homes that were previously dumping wastewater ...

Horrible water quality made it illegal to swim in the Seine for more than a century, but the Olympics pushed forward to hold ...