Seine Or Not? That Is The Question The Spirit Of Fran Crippen Gives Us The Answer To
Fran Crippens spirit is with us this morning on the banks of the Seine urging organisers to take a belt-and-braces approach: athlete safety first. “Never again”.
Just beyond dawn, as first light caught the gilded tips of the winged Fames restraining Pegasus on the Pont Alexandre III, the swimmers took the plunge in the muddy, fast-flowing Seine, "is it sane" the question on everyone's cap and goggles.
It turned out the swimmers were not Olympians but members of Team Frogmen, testers of cleanliness and underwater rigging. When water analysis taken at 4.30am on Monday came back from the lab at 11 on Tuesday morning, the answer was “Non!”
