Olympics triathlon training session is cancelled AGAIN over health concerns due to pollution in the River Seine - as athletes face nervy wait to find out whether the event will go ahead

Triathletes - including GB's golden chasing Alex Yee - are group to spell to furniture connected Monday nighttime not knowing if their title will return spot successful nan morning.

Continued h2o value issues successful nan Seine saw nan men's believe swimming session, scheduled for Sunday, cancelled, and early connected Monday, nan women's trial tally was besides called off.

Officials will make a telephone connected whether nan celebrated river, portion of a £1bn clean-up, will beryllium fresh to participate astatine astir 3.30am section time, four-and-a-half hours up of nan planned 8am start.

Should germs levels stay unsafe, organisers person 2 options. They tin driblet nan swimming and make nan arena a duathlon, aliases postpone it to a later date. August 2 has been pencilled in. The women's triathlon is owed to return spot connected Wednesday.

Swimming successful nan Seine, which dissects nan city, has been banned since 1923. In 1990, Jacques Chirac, past politician of Paris, famously declared that he would make it cleanable capable to enter, but grounded successful his mission.

Meanwhile, nan head wide of Paris 2024 refused to apologise to competitors erstwhile asked by Mail Sport if he would do so.

‘We person to wait,’ Etienne Thobois said. ‘We don’t do fabrication scenarios. We are very respectful of nan athletes. They are nan bosom of nan Games. We person done everything we could successful narration pinch nan world federations and nationalist authorities to execute nan extremity of swimming successful nan Seine which will beryllium a awesome legacy. We are still optimistic, we person a contingency plan, we dream erstwhile they aftermath up they will beryllium capable participate.’

When it was pointed retired athletes going to furniture coming not knowing if they would beryllium competing was truth and not fiction, Thobois responded: ‘We will hold until tomorrow.’

In a property conference, nan 56-year-old had earlier said levels were ‘going down rapidly’. ‘The forecast is agleam and shiny,’ he added. ‘We are assured we will beryllium capable to clasp title tomorrow and Wednesday and we still person a contingency scheme for Friday conscionable successful case. As acold arsenic we tin spot we are still assured to clasp it tomorrow.’

Earlier this month, pursuing astonishing investment, existent politician Anne Hidalgo plunged successful pinch a group of astir 100 officials and swam astir 100 metres.

However, nan dense rainfall which disrupted nan opening ceremonial has impacted connected h2o value levels, pinch nan threat of pollution, successful peculiar E.coli, a concern.

Such downfall is damaging fixed it tin trigger problems pinch wastewater and h2o speed.

Over nan play Tony Estanguet, nan Paris 2024 chief, told a property convention he was 'very confident' that swimming successful nan Seine would return place.

Lewisham's Yee, 26, won metallic successful Tokyo and golden successful nan mixed relay. He is considered a beardown contender successful France.

Following this morning's trial results, a Paris 2024 spokesperson said: 'Given nan upwind forecast for nan adjacent 36 hours, Paris 2024 and World Triathlon are assured that h2o value will return to beneath limits earlier nan commencement for of nan triathlon competitions connected 30 July. 

'As observed successful July, pinch summertime conditions (more sunshine, higher temperatures, prolonged absence of rain) h2o value successful nan Seine has improved significantly.'