Overnight rain postpones 1st skateboard event at Paris Olympics

The first event of the skateboarding competition at the Paris Olympics on Saturday was postponed after rain overnight and into the morning.

Skateboarding is played at the outdoor venue of La Concorde Urban Park in Paris. World Skate, the sport's governing body, cited adverse weather conditions for the move.

Men's street skateboarding scheduled for Saturday was postponed to Monday. The women's event is scheduled for Sunday.

Rain has been one of the big stories early in the Games after constant showers and occasional downpours served as the backdrop for the opening ceremony. As of 10 a.m. local time, much of the rain had cleared from the area and no other events had yet been disrupted by rain.

Olympic Games organizers said they "deeply apologize" for introducing South Korea's athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony in Paris.

As the South Korean athletes waved their nation's flag on a boat floating down the Seine River Friday evening, they were announced in both French and English as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. South Korea is the Republic of Korea.

"We deeply apologize for the mistake that occurred when introducing the Korean team during the opening ceremony broadcast," the International Olympic Committee said in a post on X in Korean.

The South Korean Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism Vice Minister Jang Mi Ran requested a meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach over the incident, the ministry said in a statement Saturday. It said the ministry also asked South Korea's Foreign Ministry to file "a strong government-level complaint" with the French government.

The statement said South Korea's Olympic committee separately asked the organizers of the Paris Games to prevent the recurrence of similar