Paris's Mayor Swam In The City's Main River To Prove It's Clean Enough For The Olympics Just Weeks After A Poop Protest Was Threatened

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12. Following the swim, according to CNN, Hidalgo told reporters, "It's very, very cool to be here and it was a dream and now it's real...after the Games we will have a swimming pool in the river for all the people, for the Parisian people and for the tourists also."

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