Saudi National Teams Arriving in China to Participate in 19th Asian Games

Saudi National Teams Arriving in China to Participate in 19th Asian Games
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Saudi National Teams Arriving in China to Participate in 19th Asian Games

Saudi National Teams Arriving in China to Participate in 19th Asian Games

Saudi national teams have arrived in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Huzhou for training camps before departing to Hangzhou to participate in the 19th Asian Games, which will be held from September 23 to October 8 with the participation of 12,000 athletes from 45 Asian countries.

The football, tennis, fencing, taekwondo, basketball, table tennis and rowing teams were first to arrive and then joined over the following days by other national teams participating in the Asian Games, SPA reported.

The teams conducted morning and evening training in the halls and stadiums that the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee had prepared.

The Kingdom will begin participating in the tournament tomorrow in the football match with the Iranian national team as part of Group B qualifiers, which also combines Vietnam and Mongolia.



‘Flooding Rains’ Threaten to Dampen Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony

Paris 2024 Olympics - Opening Ceremony - Paris, France - July 26, 2024. Spectators are seen behind the Eiffel Tower ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. (Reuters)
Paris 2024 Olympics - Opening Ceremony - Paris, France - July 26, 2024. Spectators are seen behind the Eiffel Tower ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. (Reuters)
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‘Flooding Rains’ Threaten to Dampen Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony

Paris 2024 Olympics - Opening Ceremony - Paris, France - July 26, 2024. Spectators are seen behind the Eiffel Tower ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. (Reuters)
Paris 2024 Olympics - Opening Ceremony - Paris, France - July 26, 2024. Spectators are seen behind the Eiffel Tower ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. (Reuters)

The Paris Olympics look likely to get off to a soggy start.

Meteo-France, the French weather service, is predicting “flooding rains” Friday evening when the opening ceremony is set to unroll along the Seine River. But the show is set to go on as planned, starting at 1:30 p.m. EDT/7:30 p.m. CEST and should last more than three hours.

Already in the late afternoon, skies were gray with intermittent drizzle. There was a silver lining, though, with temperatures expected to stay relatively warm throughout the evening.

Instead of a traditional march into a stadium, about 6,800 athletes will parade on more than 90 boats on the Seine River for 6 kilometers (3.7 miles). Though 10,700 athletes are expected to compete at these Olympics, hundreds of soccer players are based outside Paris, surfers are in Tahiti and many have yet to arrive for their events in the second week, organizers said Thursday.

Hundreds of thousands of people, including 320,000 paying and invited ticket-holders, are expected to line the Seine’s banks as athletes are paraded along the river on boats.