Cleanliness test were also made just before the race. The article from apnews talks about them. I could only find french newspaper talking about it but the “heavy rainfalls” seemed NOT to be a problem.
Tuesday evening’s thunderstorm “was a close call”, admitted regional prefect Marc Guillaume on Wednesday, but “it didn’t rain on the event zone”. In the event of heavy rainfall, untreated water can be discharged into the river, a phenomenon that the retention structures inaugurated just before the Games are designed to prevent.
The cleanliness test results were from samples taken before heavy rainfalls caused the sewers to overflow
Cleanliness test were also made just before the race. The article from apnews talks about them. I could only find french newspaper talking about it but the “heavy rainfalls” seemed NOT to be a problem.