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Nadal Falls to Nuno Borges in Nordea Open Final

Tennis - Nordea Open - Bastad, Sweden - July 21, 2024 Portugal's Nuno Borges poses with the trophy after winning his men's singles final alongside Spain's Rafael Nadal Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency via REUTERS
Tennis - Nordea Open - Bastad, Sweden - July 21, 2024 Portugal's Nuno Borges poses with the trophy after winning his men's singles final alongside Spain's Rafael Nadal Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency via REUTERS
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Nadal Falls to Nuno Borges in Nordea Open Final

Tennis - Nordea Open - Bastad, Sweden - July 21, 2024 Portugal's Nuno Borges poses with the trophy after winning his men's singles final alongside Spain's Rafael Nadal Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency via REUTERS
Tennis - Nordea Open - Bastad, Sweden - July 21, 2024 Portugal's Nuno Borges poses with the trophy after winning his men's singles final alongside Spain's Rafael Nadal Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency via REUTERS

Rafael Nadal's winning run at the clay-court Nordea Open ended Sunday when the Spaniard was beaten by Nuno Borges 6-3, 6-2 in the final on Sunday.
The seventh-seeded Portuguese player broke the Nadal serve five times on his way to a first ATP tour victory. It was Nadal's first final since the 2022 French Open.
“It’s crazy, in tennis it doesn’t happen when you expect it sometimes," said Borges. “I know we all wanted Rafa to win, a part of me wished that too, but something even bigger inside of me really pushed through today.”
Nadal was playing at the tournament in Sweden for the first time since he won the title as a 19-year-old in 2005 as he prepares for the Olympic tournament on clay at Roland Garros in Paris.
The 38-year-old Nadal skipped Wimbledon as he didn’t want to switch surface to grass and then back to clay and risk injury. He has been dealing with hip and abdominal injuries over the past 1 1/2 years.

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Paris Hopes Security Won't Spoil the Party at 2024 Olympics Opening

FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Paris, France - July 21, 2024 A police officer and a sniffer dog inspect a swimming pool area ahead of the Olympics REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Paris, France - July 21, 2024 A police officer and a sniffer dog inspect a swimming pool area ahead of the Olympics REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
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Paris Hopes Security Won't Spoil the Party at 2024 Olympics Opening

FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Paris, France - July 21, 2024 A police officer and a sniffer dog inspect a swimming pool area ahead of the Olympics REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Paris, France - July 21, 2024 A police officer and a sniffer dog inspect a swimming pool area ahead of the Olympics REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo

Paris makes final preparations for the Summer Olympics, the grand opening ceremony along the river Seine on Friday has created an unprecedented security challenge that organizers hope won't dampen the party vibe.
For the first time, a Games opening ceremony will not take place in a stadium. Instead, dozens of boats will carry thousands of athletes and performers on a 6-km (3.7-mile) floating parade down the Seine, showcasing the beauty and history of the French capital, said Reuters.
More than 300,000 people are expected to line both banks of the river to watch the ceremony - along with 45,000 police, including members of France's elite special intervention forces trained in counterterrorism.
Snipers will be deployed on the top of buildings along the route and an anti-drone system will be in place.
"There's a balance to be found between top security, which is absolutely the priority," Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, told a press conference on Sunday.
"It's part of the objective to guarantee the security and to propose a fantastic celebration of the Games... But to have this kind of unique celebration, you also need to have a very, very strong security plan. And that's the case."
The ceremony, which will start at 7:30 p.m. local time(1730 GMT), will be "a large fresco" celebrating Paris, France and the Games and will interweave the traditional parade by athletes with artistic performances and elements of protocol, said Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening ceremony.
With wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and security concerns at home, France is already at its highest level of security. The crowds set to descend on Paris will be in marked contrast to the atmosphere of the last Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021 which played to empty arenas, and a year later than scheduled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
French officials have said there are no specific terrorism threats for the ceremony that will launch the Games in Paris, which run until Aug. 11.
However, should specific concerns arise, there are backup plans, that would either see the ceremony restricted to the Trocadero square near the Eiffel tower, or switched to the Stade de France stadium.