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but in recognition of his efforts to clean the seine, raf has been awarded the city of paris medal and congratulated by president macron. i still have one nagging question, though. so, raf, are you going to be swimming in the river soon? no, no. definitely not. it'll never be clean enough. no. myjourney across paris is drawing to an end. but i have one last stop to make. i thought, while i'm here, i'd drop in on some old friends. ryadh, what a fantastic surprise, my friend! when did we first meet? 2010? yeah. europeans. yeah, exactly. that was the first time we played against each other. yeah. and you were impossible to catch.
bonjour! bonjour, steve. alex. raf. ca va? nice to meet you. 0h. thank you. rafael and his dad alex have a special relationship with the river. not for olympic games, but for usually every day. so how long have you been cleaning the river? since four years ago now. four years. he was.... he was nine when we started. they've become famous for fishing rubbish out of the river and posting about it on instagram under the tag raf—sur—seine. so... and this is the magnet? yeah, this magnet is so strong, but you can try here. oh, wow! you're pulling the bridge over!
and we find maybe 20, 30 guns in the river. no way! yeah, i understand. in fact, the authorities have forbidden magnet fishing in paris because of safety concerns.
and i think we need to elaborate on that. like, you know, the goal is not to say, uh, "we should stop the olympics, cancel them." no, the goal is to say, "i think it brings a joy to a lot of people in the world." there'sjust the need to be, now, when we're going to organise olympics, the need to be social and, come on, i mean, we could do it. hey, hey. this is cool, eh? the weather can't make up its mind. one minute, it's raining and now look at it! blue skies. beautiful. the seine is due to play a major role at the 2024 games. for the first time, the opening ceremony isn't going to be in a stadium, it's going to be here on the river —
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beautiful. the seine is due to play a major role at the 2024 games. for the first time, the opening ceremony isn't going to be in a stadium, it's going to be here on the river — and the athletes' parade, believe it or not, is going to be a huge flotilla of boats. at least, that's the plan. it could be moved because of security fears, but the river itself is set to become one of the games' biggest legacies. for the first time in 100 years, the seine could open up to public swimming after the city spent around 1.5 billion euros upgrading its sewage system. athletes in the triathlon are supposed to take a dip this summer. so if the organisers hit all their targets, you'll be able to have a swim in the seine as early as 2025. swimming in the river isn't
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over the years, they estimate they've pulled well over 30 tonnes of waste from the seine, including dozens of bicycles! but some of the objects are a bit more sinister. and, uh, we find maybe 20, 30 guns in the river. no way! yeah, i understand. in fact, the authorities have forbidden magnet fishing in paris because of safety concerns.
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