No Olympic triathlon, no French gold, no worry - just a good day out at the judo

Putting one of the martial arts at a site honouring the Roman god of war must have been a deliriously easy move back in the day for Paris Olympic organisers. Another decision - to spend 1. 4 billion euros cleaning up the river Seine for the open water swimming events while banking on no rain to return the gunk to the flow - seems a step from a very .