WATCH: Olympics athlete vomits after being made to swim in polluted water

Tyler Mislawchuk, a Canadian triathlete, was filmed on live TV vomiting violently after crossing the finish line for his Olympic race yesterday. Mislawchuk finished ninth after completing the gruelling triathlon competition, which featured a 40-kilometre bike ride, a 10-kilometre run, and a 1.5-kilometre swim in the Seine River, despite pollution concerns.

France and Britain swept the podiums in the event yesterday, which began in the Seine after days of speculation over whether the river would be clean enough for racing. According to AFP, the Seine has been too unclean to swim in all week after Paris was deluged with rain during the Games' opening ceremony on Friday, with the equivalent of a month's rain pouring in 36 hours.

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Absolute disgrace at the Paris Olympics.

Athletes’ health has been badly compromised by being forced to swim in the filthy Seine River - all so politicians could boast about their fake environmental record.

Like their attempt to politicise the open ceremony - it’s back-fired… pic.twitter.com/5Q5kKWdhec

— Craig Kelly (@CraigKellyPHON) August 1, 2024

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The storms overloaded the city's sewage infrastructure, despite a recent 1.4-billion-euro overhaul, resulting in discharges of untreated wastewater that raised E. Coli bacteria levels. The swimming event was part of a campaign to highlight French officials' attempts to clean up the river, which has been closed to Parisian swimmers since 1923. Due to an unusually rainy spring and early summer, the Seine has repeatedly failed testing until the beginning of July.

'I have no regrets' - Tyler Mislawchuk

According to the Sports Bible Mislawchuk spoke the race he said, "I didn’t come here to come top 10 but I gave it everything I had."He added: "I went for it, I have no regrets - vomited 10 times."

On certain days in June, E. Coli levels, a major indication of faecal matter, were ten times higher than authorized triathlon limits. Prior to Wednesday's triathlon, planners stated both the men's and women's events had just a 60% chance of taking place due to dirty water in the River Seine. Tests on the River Seine in the early hours of Tuesday morning found that the water was not clean enough for the race. Marten van Riel of Belgium claimed triathletes were treated as 'puppets in a puppet show'