Emmanuel Macron not gone yet to swim inside SeineFrance’s second-term president had the opportunity to have lunch with athletes Olympics but not for a quick dip in Paris’ most famous water.

It is interesting, is not it?

Macron, 46, vowed to swim the Seine River to prove his country’s $1.5 billion fortune is real. billion The effort to clean up the contaminated water has been successful. He continues to insist that he will do it someday. The swim is said to be happening—but not until the Games begin later this week.

This is where the controversy (for lack of a better word) comes from. Macron swears that the Seine River is clean enough for Olympic athletes, but he doesn’t get in the water himself.

Swimming in the Seine, a drainage basin running through the centre of Paris, has been illegal for more than 120 years. Heavy rains overwhelm the city’s infrastructure and sewage seeps into the basin. High levels of E. coli contaminate the water.

The Seine River will host a triathlon and a marathon swim in a few days. There have been many concerns about safety in the past few months due to high levels of bacteria in the water.

French sports minister Améilie Odéa-Castéra made good on her promise to keep the Seine safe, jumping in for a swim last week. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo did the same recently.

Macron has not yet done so and continues to fear poop water.

His team said he would probably swim in the future after the Games, to prove that swimming at the national level is safe – and not just for the world’s most important sporting event. But that defeats the purpose because Parisians don’t want to swim in the Seine anyway.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron had plenty of time to have lunch at the Olympic Village on Monday!

Was the photoshoot below really that necessary?

It seems to me, a complete stranger with very limited knowledge of his schedule, that Macron could have gone for a swim in the Seine at some point in the last few days. Maybe during lunch… Coward!