Swimming featured 34 events (17 male, 17 female), including two 10 km open-water marathons in Hyde Park's Serpentine Lake. The remaining 32 were contested in a ...

23 мая 2012 г. · The Serpentine, which is supplied with water from the Thames, will host the triathlon and marathon swimming events. Having met the bathing water ...

The 2012 Olympics are not blighted by enough raw sewage to fill nearly 785 Olympic sized swimming pools being pumped into the Thames around the Park at Games ...

25 июл. 2023 г. · Paris will soon open the River Seine to swimmers for the first time in 100 years, as part of a cleanup ahead of the 2024 Olympics.

20 апр. 2024 г. · Paris Olympic organisers have ambitious plans to hold the swimming sections of the triathlons and the marathon swimming events in the iconic River Seine.

31 июл. 2024 г. · Paris has failed to get the River Seine clean in time for the Olympics. What omens does that hold for the UK's effort to clean the Thames?

Like the Seine in 2024, the Thames is generally considered safe for swimming but bathers are made aware that they are potentially exposing themselves, ...

17 июл. 2024 г. · The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, finally swam in the river this morning to prove it is safe for athletes, rounding off an extremely political saga.

The men's marathon swim over a distance of 10 kilometres at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on 10 August in the Serpentine at Hyde Park.

31 июл. 2024 г. · The Thames is a great place to swim in the non tidal parts though, and I'd encourage people to learn how to wild swim if they're interested.