They’re swimming in the Seine this summer in Paris.

For the first time in 102 years, the famously romantic and famously polluted river that winds sensuously through the City of Light is clean enough for Parisians to plunge into — if they dare. It’s a legacy of the 2024 Olympic Games, which were going on this time last year up, down and yes, in the Seine.

Thirty-five athletes with LSU and/or Louisiana ties competed for 20 countries during the Paris Games, which ran from July 26-Aug. 11. Before we pass the one-year mark since the Olympic flame was extinguished (to be relighted again Feb. 6 for the start of the Winter Olympics in Italy), we thought we’d get an update on how some Louisiana Olympians are faring these days:

Mondo Duplantis

The Lafayette native dramatically broke his own p

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