Organisers say the lads’s and girls’s Olympic triathlons solely have a 60% probability of going forward on Wednesday after the lads’s occasion was postponed on Tuesday.
Checks of the River Seine within the early hours of Tuesday morning revealed the water was not clear sufficient for the race to happen.
It’s now set to be held on Wednesday at 09:45 BST (10:45 native time), after the ladies’s occasion, which is scheduled to start out at 07:00 (08:00 native time).
Last assessments of the water can be taken at 02:30 BST.
World Triathlon president Marisol Casado had beforehand stated there was an 80% probability the lads’s triathlon would happen on Tuesday.
However after the race was postponed she defined “sadly it was the 20%” that had received out.
When requested what the probabilities are of Wednesday’s triathlons occurring, Casado advised BBC Sport the percentages are “60-40” in favour of them happening.
“We actually need this to occur. However after all we actually thought that this recuperation [the improvement in the water quality] could be sooner than it was,” Casado stated.
“We have been shocked this morning once we noticed that it was not as quick as we wished.”
The boys’s race had been because of begin at 07:00 BST (08:00 native time) on Tuesday.
Whereas Friday, 2 August stays a back-up date for each the women and men’s races, organisers say the occasion could possibly be contested as a duathlon – simply the biking and operating legs – as a final resort.
Nice Britain’s Alex Yee is among the favourites for gold within the males’s race, whereas team-mate Beth Potter is the reigning girls’s world champion.
