Skateboarding postponed at Olympics as Paris left soaked by more rainfall

The boys’s skateboarding road competitors has been postponed by 48 hours because the Paris Olympicscontinues to be affected by the climate.

Heavy rain fell all through the opening ceremony which was a three-and-a-half-hour spectacle on the River Seine, which noticed 85 boats carry nearly 7,000 athletes from 205 nations.

The deluge threatened to dampen the present, and noticed flood warnings raised by the French meteorological workplace for some areas across the metropolis.

On Saturday, the primary foremost occasions get underway, though Rugby Sevens, handball and soccer had kicked off earlier than the primary ceremony.

Nonetheless, for these hoping to observe the skateboarding road males’s preliminaries and finals which had been scheduled for Saturday 27 July, that has now been pushed again till Monday 29 July.

It would start on the similar begin time as initially deliberate, the prelim competitors will begin at 11am BST, and the ultimate will likely be at 4pm BST.

The eventing dressage competitors has not been affected by rain and has gone forward at Versailles, north of Paris, whereas the indoor highlights on Saturday of gymnastics, diving and swimming won’t be affected by the hostile climate.

Tennis at Roland Garros, which is because of begin at 11am, can proceed in mild rain, but it surely stays to be seen whether or not that may also should be postponed, though the 2 foremost courts are lined and for the Olympics that is likely to be ample for the competitors to go forward at once.

On Friday night, Tom Daley and Helen Glover had been chosen as Crew Nice Britain’s flag bearers, they usually together with 37 different British athletes travelled on the boat down 10km of the Seine for a view of a number of the metropolis’s most well-known websites.