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Two swimming training sessions were cancelled on Sunday and Monday because of the water quality.
There was heavy rain in Paris last week, which has affected the water quality, and temperatures are now expected to reach 34C on Tuesday, when the men's event is scheduled.
The men's event is due to take place at 07:00 BST (08:00 local time), with a final decision to be made at 03:00 BST (04:00 local time).
The women's event is set to take place on Wednesday and the mixed team competition on Monday, 5 August.
Lambis Konstantinidis, operations director for Paris 2024, said there were several back-up plans in place should the water quality not be good enough.
"One solution could be to have both men's and women's competitions on the same day," he told BBC Sport.
"Another possibility would be to use our contingency days that we have built into the programme.
"We also have the possibility to see what can be accommodated when we do the mixed relay - of course, we cannot do too many things on the same day.
"At some point, and it was widely discussed, we also considered the possibility of a duathlon, but this is for us the really, really extreme case when all other fails.
"We are not there yet, and we are confident that tomorrow [Tuesday] will be a good day."
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