The boys’s particular person triathlon has been postponed after checks revealed inadequate water high quality ranges within the River Seine.
The race was on account of begin at 07:00 BST (08:00 native time) on Tuesday and can now happen on Wednesday at 09:45 (10:45 native time), following the conclusion of the ladies’s occasion.
Swimming coaching classes had been cancelled on Sunday and Monday due to the water high quality, which was impacted by latest heavy rainfall.
Friday, 2 August stays a contingency date for each races, whereas organisers have mentioned the occasion may very well be contested as a duathlon as a last resort.
“Exams carried out within the Seine in the present day revealed water high quality didn’t present ample ensures to permit the occasion to be held,” World Triathlon mentioned.
“Regardless of the advance within the water high quality ranges, the readings at some factors of the swim course are nonetheless above the suitable limits.”
Nice Britain’s Alex Yee is likely one of the favourites for gold within the males’s race, whereas team-mate Beth Potter is the reigning girls’s world champion.
Exams are being carried out each day on the water high quality within the River Seine, which can be on account of host the triathlon combined relay on 5 August, the Olympic marathon swimming on 8 and 9 August, and the Para-triathlon occasion on the Paralympics, which begin on 28 August.
