Water quality concerns halt Paris Olympics swimming test in the Seine

Athletes and swim in the Seine on the first leg of the women’s triathlon test event on Thursday (Michel Euler/AP)

Another Paris Olympics test run in the River Seine was cancelled on Saturday because of concerns about water quality, in a fresh blow to Games organisers and the city’s ambitions to reopen the river to public swimming.

Paratriathlon swimmers were in the Seine in competition on Thursday and Friday, but results of water quality tests showed “significant discrepancies” in the hours leading up to Saturday’s events, organisers said in a statement.