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PARIS: The sporting action at the Paris Olympics kicked off with two football matches on Wednesday (Jul 24), two days before thousands of athletes and artists are set to take part in an ambitious opening ceremony at the heart of the French capital.
The arrest of a Russian man in Paris, reportedly a former reality-TV chef, over a suspected "destabilisation" plot targeting the Paris Olympics underscores French concerns that Moscow is looking to undermine the event from afar. The man, born in 1984, was detained at his home in Paris this week and is suspected of "passing intelligence to a foreign power in order to arouse hostilities in France," a statement from prosecutors said on Tuesday. Le Monde newspaper said police had found documents "of diplomatic interest" at his apartment and he was suspected of working for the Russian FSB intelligence service after appearances in reality TV shows and a stint as a chef in a French ski resort.
Around 1,000 French police officers will be on duty on Wednesday to protect Israel's football match against Mali at the Paris Olympics where protests are also expected, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. The game involving the Israeli team at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, as well as the Ukraine-Iraq match in the southeastern city of Lyon, have been identified by French security forces as high risk. "All the competitions have a security plan, but it's true that these two matches, and particularly the match at the Parc des Princes, will have security, an anti-terror perimeter," Darmanin told BFM television and RMC radio.
PARIS : Super heavyweight Teremoana Junior will be among the favourites to win a medal when boxing begins at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, but the Australian says he has accomplished his goal of honouring his family name even before he steps into the ring.
PARIS :Three more Australian women's water polo players have tested positive for COVID ahead of the Paris Games, the country's Olympic team chief Anna Meares said on Wednesday, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the team up to five.
It's a "now-or-never situation for me", says veteran Indian archer Tarundeep Rai as he seeks to win a maiden Olympic medal in his fourth appearance at the Games while also serving as the team's unofficial mentor in Paris. The 40-year-old Rai has won medals in every championships at the global and continental level but not the Olympics. He has two silver at the World Championships (2005, 2019), nine World Cup medals, including three gold, a silver and a bronze in Asian Games, two silver and a bronze in Asian Championships.
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The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and French President Emmanuel Macron rejected Tuesday a Palestinian demand that Israel be barred from the Paris Games over the war in Gaza. As the Israeli team settled into the Athletes' Village, the IOC studied a letter from the Palestine Olympic Committee asking for a ban on Israel, citing the bombings of the besieged Gaza Strip as a breach of the Olympic truce. The letter, sent days before Friday's opening ceremony, "emphasised that Palestinian athletes, particularly those in Gaza, are denied safe passage and have suffered significantly due to the ongoing conflict".