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African Champions Ahly Stay Top After Draw in Algeria

Ahly's Egyptian midfielder Hussein el-Shahat (C) celebrates with the trophy after winning the CAF Champions League final football match between Morocco's Wydad AC and Egypt's Al Ahly in Casablanca on June 11, 2023. © Fadel Senna, AFP
Ahly's Egyptian midfielder Hussein el-Shahat (C) celebrates with the trophy after winning the CAF Champions League final football match between Morocco's Wydad AC and Egypt's Al Ahly in Casablanca on June 11, 2023. © Fadel Senna, AFP
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African Champions Ahly Stay Top After Draw in Algeria

Ahly's Egyptian midfielder Hussein el-Shahat (C) celebrates with the trophy after winning the CAF Champions League final football match between Morocco's Wydad AC and Egypt's Al Ahly in Casablanca on June 11, 2023. © Fadel Senna, AFP
Ahly's Egyptian midfielder Hussein el-Shahat (C) celebrates with the trophy after winning the CAF Champions League final football match between Morocco's Wydad AC and Egypt's Al Ahly in Casablanca on June 11, 2023. © Fadel Senna, AFP

Record 11-time title-holders Al Ahly of Egypt and Chabab Belouizdad of Algeria on Friday drew 0-0 for the second time in Group D of the CAF Champions League.

The first goalless stalemate was in Cairo last December and the return match in Algiers, scheduled for the same month, had to be postponed as Ahly were competing in the Club World Cup.

Defending champions Ahly remain top of the table with six points, Belouizdad and Young Africans of Tanzania have five each and Medeama of Ghana four after four rounds, AFP reported.

Each club has one home and one away fixture to come and the group winners and runners-up qualify for the quarter-finals.

Belouizdad full-back Houcine Benayada came closest to breaking the deadlock in the Algerian capital, hitting the post on 50 minutes with a free-kick that took a deflection.

Matchday five will be staged on February 23 and 24 with Ahly and Belouizdad away to Medeama and Young Africans respectively.

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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)
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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.