French President Chose P.R. Stunt Over Paris Poop Water Promise [Video]

Emmanuel Macron has yet to go for a swim in the Seine. The second-term President of France had time to eat lunch with athletes at the Olympics but not for a quick dip in Paris’ most famous water.

Isn’t that interesting?

Macron, 46, promised to take a dip in the Seine to prove that his country’s $1.5 billion effort to clean up the contaminated water was a success. He continues to insist that, one day, he will. The swim is supposedly going to happen— just not not before the Games get underway later this week.

This is where the controversy (for lack of better word) lies. Macron swears the Seine is clean enough for Olympic athletes but won’t get in the water himself.

It has been illegal to swim in the Seine, a drainage basin that runs through the middle of Paris, for more than 120 years. Heavy rains overwhelm the city’s infrastructure and sewages leak …