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Wednesday July 17, 2024, nine days before the Paris Olympic Games, Anne Hidalgo bathed in the Seine, as she had promised.
Something promised, something due. This Wednesday July 17, 2024, in accordance with what she had announced for weeks, Anne Hidalgo bathed in the Seine. A little before 10 a.m., the mayor of Paris took a dip under the Pont Marie – in the 4th arrondissement of the capital, between the Saint-Paul district and the Saint-Louis island – accompanied by Tony Estanguet, the president of the committee organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Anne Hidalgo was dressed in a short-sleeved wetsuit, with swimming goggles and tied up hair, and wore a radiant smile. The councilor then did a few laps in a crawl, before coming out of the water and cheerfully greeting the crowd who had gathered on the quays to attend this event, described as "historic" by all the journalists present on place.
In front of the cameras, Anne Hidalgo described this moment as “a challenge” and a “great adventure”, evoking her desire to “reclaim the river for its inhabitants, to swim in it”. The mayor of Paris thus once again expressed her plan to create four “bathing sites” in the Seine in the coming year. “The Games more than challenged us, it was the engine and the accelerator. We do it because we more than need to adapt our cities to climate change, and to find the river,” she concluded.
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