Olympics-Swimming-Swedish swimmer pulls out of Olympic marathon in Seine over health concerns

FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Swimming - Men's 400m Freestyle - Heats - Paris La Defense Arena, Nanterre, France - July 27, 2024. Victor Johansson of Sweden during heat 3. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Swedish marathon swimmer Victor Johansson has pulled out of the Olympic men's 10km event scheduled for Friday citing concerns about the water quality of the Seine river, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported.

Johansson told the paper triathletes had fallen sick after swimming in the urban river during the Olympic competition, without naming any.