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Winners of 2nd Abu Dhabi Government Games Championship Crowned

The competitions were organized from 13th to 28th March by the Abu Dhabi Sports Council - WAM
The competitions were organized from 13th to 28th March by the Abu Dhabi Sports Council - WAM
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Winners of 2nd Abu Dhabi Government Games Championship Crowned

The competitions were organized from 13th to 28th March by the Abu Dhabi Sports Council - WAM
The competitions were organized from 13th to 28th March by the Abu Dhabi Sports Council - WAM

Winners of the 2nd Abu Dhabi Government Games Championship were honored by competitions will begin tomorrow, Wednesday, 13 March, at a special award-giving ceremony held yesterday at the Abu Dhabi Sports Hub.

The winners were crowned in 11 sports including football, archery, padel, fitness, volleyball, table tennis, basketball, chess, badminton, running and cycling.

The competitions were organized from 13th to 28th March by the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, with the support of the Government Support Department, and featuring participation of over 2000 employees from more than 40 government agencies from Abu Dhabi.
The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) won the competition shield for the entity that participated with the largest number of players in various competitions, while Abu Dhabi Police won the general sports excellence shield after winning the largest number of competitions.
The top three finishers in each competition were crowned.

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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.