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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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South Korea Expresses Regret after Its Athletes Introduced as North Korea at Opening Ceremony

Athletes of South Korea travel by boat along the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP)
Athletes of South Korea travel by boat along the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP)
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South Korea Expresses Regret after Its Athletes Introduced as North Korea at Opening Ceremony

Athletes of South Korea travel by boat along the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP)
Athletes of South Korea travel by boat along the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP)

South Korea expressed regret that its delegation of athletes at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday was introduced as from rival North Korea and has demanded assurances from organizers the mistake will not happen again.

As the boat carrying South Korean athletes passed on the Seine, the announcer introduced them as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" - the official name of North Korea - in French and English.

The announcer used the same introduction when the North Korean delegation passed.

South Korea's vice minister for sports and culture, Jang Mi-ran, who was in Paris, had requested a meeting with International Olympics Committee President Thomas Bach, the ministry said in a statement.

"We express regret that the country was introduced as North Korea at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games when the athletes of the Republic of Korea were entering," it said.

South Korea's National Olympic Committee immediately referred the incident to the Games' organizers and requested that the error will not be repeated.

South Korea's delegation includes 143 athletes competing in 21 events. North Korea, which is returning to the Games for the first time since Rio 2016, has sent 16 athletes.