{"id":122999,"date":"2025-09-06T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T11:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122999\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T11:03:07","slug":"thames-swim-relay-repeatedly-hindered-by-polluted-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122999\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames swim relay repeatedly hindered by polluted waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The swimmers included two-time world champion Amber Keegan, Olympians Toby Robinson and Hector Pardoe, and ultramarathon swimmers Jessika Robson and Daniel Smyth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Keegan said: &#8220;This was one of the toughest challenges I&#8217;ve ever taken on, but what shocked me most wasn&#8217;t the distance or the fatigue, it was the state of the water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said some points along the river were &#8220;absolutely disgusting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nobody should have to risk their health just to enjoy their local river. It&#8217;s 2025, and this simply isn&#8217;t acceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Maclean called it a &#8220;tough week that tested us all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The fact we literally couldn&#8217;t swim the full route proves our point, and I hope one day an uninterrupted Thames relay will be possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The swimmers included two-time world champion Amber Keegan, Olympians Toby Robinson and Hector Pardoe, and ultramarathon swimmers Jessika&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-122999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}