EAGLE-EYED Olympics watchers may have noticed something a little off with the costume worn by one of the Swiss athletes competing in the mixed relay triathlon this week.
Normally red to signify the Swiss flag of course, one athlete was in a neutral (which in a way, is so very Swiss) white outfit.
This was due to the athlete in question - Simon Westermann - being drafted in as a late substitute after Adrien Briffod was forced to withdraw due to a gastrointestinal infection caused by swimming in the filthy Paris river, the Seine.
It's easy to see why prior to the Olympics, swimming in the Seine was banned for 100 years.
The Swiss weren't the only ones affected by the putrid state of the river, with another French-speaking nation Belgium forced to withdraw the entire team after one member had caught E.Coli from the same activity.
Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games said the water quality in the Seine had been tested on the morning of the race and was deemed to be in "very good" condition, according to the standard of the International Federation of World Triathlon.
Ironically, the headquarters of the World Triathlon's governing authority is in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland.
The state of the Seine has provided no shortage of talking points during the Games, with the individual triathlon events delayed by one day.
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