PARIS (AP) — Rain that fell all through the opening ceremony continued on Saturday, resulting in postponements and delays on the Paris Olympics.

The primary occasion of the skateboarding competitors, males’s avenue skateboarding, was postponed from Saturday till Monday due to the showers. The ladies’s occasion is scheduled for Sunday.

Skateboarding is held on the outside venue of La Concorde City Park in Paris. World Skate, the game’s governing physique, cited hostile climate circumstances for the transfer.

Rain has been one of many massive tales early within the Video games after fixed showers and occasional downpours served because the backdrop for the opening ceremony. As of 10 a.m. CEST (4 a.m. ET), a lot of the rain had cleared from the world.

The beginning of play within the scheduled tennis matches on the ten smaller courts at Roland Garros was delayed due to rain, however motion was capable of get going within the two major stadiums, which each have retractable roofs. That included the match at Courtroom Philippe Chatrier between No. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland – who has gained 4 of the previous 5 French Open titles on the identical website getting used for the Olympics – and Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania.

The boys’s and ladies’s time trials that opened the Olympic biking program went off as scheduled from Les Invalides, however the streets of Paris have been made so treacherous by the rain that a number of high riders hit the deck in each races.

Amongst them was Chloe Dygert, the reigning world champion from the U.S., who crashed onerous going by a left-hand flip however managed to remount her bike and end third. She was left nursing her left leg on the end line.

“I like these circumstances,” Dygert insisted. “I simply assume it is determined by the roads and the place we’re. Paris and Italy and Spain, they’re all recognized for his or her icy slick roads. It’s simply the way it goes.”

Sunny skies are anticipated to return to the world Sunday, however the rain may have a long-lasting impression on the Paris Video games.

The rain may threaten the water high quality for swimming within the Seine when the triathlon begins Tuesday. Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 organizers, addressed the scenario on the day by day press briefing.

“We’re nonetheless wanting on the forecast for the approaching days,” Estanguet mentioned. “They anticipate that it’ll rain until 5 p.m. immediately after which it needs to be superb.

“The workforce may be very assured that it will likely be doable to have the (triathlon) swimming half within the Seine.”

The triathlon begins with the boys’s occasion Tuesday, swimming from 8 a.m. CEST (2 a.m. ET) on the Alexander III bridge subsequent to Grand Palais.

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AP Sports activities Writers Graham Dunbar, Steve Whyno and Dave Skretta and AP Tennis Author Howard Fendrich contributed to this story.

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Males’s avenue: Redemption for Tokyo

Ilona Maher is the Olympic athlete-creator whisperer. She’s managed to entrance and invite on-line viewers into the sports activities world so naturally, giant companies attempting to do the identical can solely dream about doing it with such finesse. Like many individuals, we first got here throughout Maher throughout the 2021 Olympic cycle, her movies going viral contained in the Olympic Village. Now, she’s again once more on the 2024 Paris Olympics giving everybody precisely what they need to see. From her give attention to physique inclusivity to her creation of the Olympic Villa bit everyone seems to be now taking part in into, Maher is massively shaping Olympic content material.

Maher is initially from Vermont and grew up taking part in sports activities. She attended Norwich College for a yr earlier than transferring to Quinnipiac College to proceed her rugby profession. Whereas at QU she gained three championships within the Nationwide Intercollegiate Rugby Affiliation and was named to the NIRA All-American group all three years, and in 2017 acquired the MA Sorensen Award, given to the nation’s high collegiate ladies’s rugby participant. Whereas in school she was chosen for the US nationwide rugby group and made her debut in 2018 taking part in at a Ladies’s SVNS event in Paris.

Now, Maher is showing in her second Olympic video games and many of the web is alongside for the experience. We caught up with Maher on the Crew USA Summit, the place we talked about social media, rising the sport of rugby, and her recommendation for anybody hoping to turn into an Olympian at some point.

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Teen Vogue: What can be your recommendation to youthful individuals hoping to compete on the Olympic stage at some point?

Ilona Maher: I believe it could be to first off, get on the market, do no matter it’s you need to do — no matter sport it’s simply go attempt it. I used to be all the time a giant fan of attempting many sports activities out. You need to play a sport that you just’ll proceed to like and that you just gained’t develop uninterested in. I believe that’s actually vital. Individuals who performed a sport from an early age can get sick of it, so I all the time say to check out as many sports activities that you just love after which you may actually specialize down the road. However hold the love for it and be sure to have issues outdoors of it that make it really feel value it.

TV: And on the flip facet, what’s one of the best recommendation you’ve ever acquired?

IM: My center college basketball coach, he nearly all the time mentioned this, however we had been on the road at some point throughout apply and he mentioned, “I noticed a quote within the newspaper that mentioned: Respect all, worry none.” And that grew to become our quote of the season. It’s actually caught with me.

TV: One thing my father grew up telling me continually was that it is vital, it doesn’t matter what you do, to have a winner’s mindset. What does a “winner’s mindset” imply to you?

IM: I don’t know if I’ve that. (She laughs) I believe its signifies that you are ready to do no matter it takes to win. In my sport, you’re ready to chase again that deal with regardless that you are canine drained. You’re ready to place your physique on the road and make that deal with as a result of that’s what your group wants.

PARIS — In an Opening Ceremony that featured a seductive ménage à trois, a singing decapitated head, and a nearly-nude blue deity, it’s a scene of mealtime that’s drawing essentially the most warmth.

Properly into the four-hour-long ceremony, a set of drag queens and different performers gathered to pose in a scene that was intentionally paying homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s well-known portray, “The Final Supper.” The scene ended with the revelation of a beefy blue Dionysus, apparently able to partake in all method of earthly pleasures.

Da Vinci’s “The Final Supper” — which is definitely in Milan, not the Louvre — depicts Jesus’ ultimate meal with the apostles, the night time earlier than Christ’s crucifixion. It’s a holy and sacred second in Christianity, so seeing nontraditional performers put a 2024 spin on it didn’t go over effectively with a vocal section of the Christian religion.

Matteo Salvini, an Italian official, posted the pictures side-by-side on X and wrote, in Italian, “Opening the Olympics by insulting billions of Christians world wide was a very dangerous begin, pricey French. Seedy.”

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who aired his conservative views on religion and household earlier this 12 months, posted video of the scene, together with a Bible verse, Galatians 6:7-8. That verse reads, partially, “Be not deceived, God isn’t mocked.”

Paris Olympics officers pushed again on the competition that the efficiency was anti-Christian. “Clearly, there was by no means an intention to point out disrespect in the direction of any spiritual group or perception,” organizers stated in an announcement to the Telegraph. “Quite the opposite, every of the tableaux within the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony have been supposed to have fun group and tolerance.” Organizers additional famous that popular culture, from “The Simpsons” to “The Sopranos,” has parodied “The Final Supper” for many years, if not centuries.

This wasn’t the primary sociopolitical controversy of those Video games, and it received’t be the final. In any case, the one factor that travels sooner than Olympians is opinions concerning the Olympics.

Bishop Barron mentioned the blasphemous act was emblematic of a “deeply secularist postmodern society” that identifies Christianity as its enemy.

A drag queen-led parody of the Final Supper featured throughout Friday’s opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics has sparked a wave of incensed reactions and denunciations.

Probably the greatest recognized prelates of the Catholic Church in the USA, Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota, referred to as on Catholics to “make their voices heard” in response to what he referred to as “the gross mockery of the Final Supper.”

In a put up on X, Bishop Barron mentioned the blasphemous act was emblematic of a “deeply secularist postmodern society” that identifies Christianity as its enemy. 

In the meantime, in reparation for the blasphemy, Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, instantly referred to as on all Catholics to “quick and pray, renew our devotion to the Eucharist, the Sacred Coronary heart and the Virgin Mary.”

“Might Jesus be adored and liked in each tabernacle all through the world,” Bishop Hying added in a put up on X wherein he thanked the Lord for the Eucharist, the Final Supper and his “love for us.”

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas was additionally fast to share his response, stating “My vocabulary will not be diversified sufficient to discover a phrase for the sensation within the pit of my abdomen” and asserting that individuals of Christian religion “deserve extra respect.”

Bishop Flores’ sentiments have been additionally echoed by non-Christians. “Whilst a Jew, I’m infuriated by this outrageous insult to Jesus and Christianity,” mentioned Dr. Eli David. He panned the opening ceremonies as reflecting a Europe that’s “culturally dying.”

The world’s materially richest man, Elon Musk, additionally referred to as the spectacle “extraordinarily disrespectful to Christians.”

For his half, United States Senator Marco Rubio, a Catholic, responded to what he referred to as the Olympic “freak present” by quoting Jude 1:18 “Within the final time there shall be scoffers who will dwell based on their very own godless wishes.”

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta Information First) – Three members of a well known, Atlanta-based household gospel group died in a Wyoming aircraft crash on Friday.

Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason Clark and their daughter Amber Nelon Kistler of “The Nelons” have been among the many seven useless within the crash. Amber’s husband, Nathan Kistler, the couple’s assistant, Melodi Hodges, and the pilot and his spouse, Larry and Melissa Haynie, additionally died, in keeping with a press release from The Nelons’ administration firm, Gaither Administration Group.

Larry Haynie was the chairman of the Georgia Division of Corrections Board, Gov. Brian Kemp mentioned.

“Our total household is asking everybody to affix us in praying for many who have been misplaced, for his or her family members and communities, and for these all through the gospel music neighborhood who’ve misplaced pricey pals on this heartbreaking accident,” he wrote in a press release on X.

The group was on their solution to the seven-day Gaither Homecoming Alaskan Cruise, a journey occasion placed on by the administration firm that includes performances from The Nelons and a number of other different artists.

Autumn Nelon Streetman, Kelly and Jason’s different daughter and The Nelons’ fourth member, was not on the aircraft. She and her husband have been advised in regards to the crash once they landed in Seattle.

“We admire your continued prayers, love and assist as we navigate the approaching days,” Autumn wrote in a press release.

Based on a information launch from Campbell County, the place the aircraft is reported to have crashed, a non-public aircraft went down north of Gillette at round 1 p.m. The crash precipitated a wildfire that the native fireplace division was known as to place out.

The Nationwide Transportation Security Board is investigating the incident. The reason for the crash is presently unknown.

The Nelons’ final Instagram put up reveals the group standing by the aircraft on the tarmac, simply having landed in Nebraska. Their subsequent cease was alleged to be Montana.

“We’ll examine in with you later,” Jason mentioned on the finish of the vlog-style video.

Recording beneath the title “The Nelons” because the ‘80s, the Grammy Award-nominated gospel group has launched dozens of albums. They have been inducted into the Gospel Music Affiliation Corridor of Fame in 2016.

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Three members of The Nelons, a Gospel Music Affiliation Corridor of Fame quartet, have been amongst seven folks killed in a airplane crash in Wyoming, in line with an announcement by a bunch member who was not aboard the plane.

The Nelons co-founder, Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason Clark, and their daughter, Amber Nelon Kistler died within the crash Friday afternoon, in line with an announcement from daughter Autumn Nelon Streetman.

“Thanks for the prayers which were prolonged already to me, my husband, Jamie, and our soon-to-be-born child boy, in addition to Jason’s dad and mom, Dan and Linda Clark,” Nelon Streetman stated. “We admire your continued prayers, love and help as we navigate the approaching days.”

Additionally killed within the crash have been Nelon Kistler’s husband, Nathan Kistler, household buddy Melodi Hodges, and Larry and Melissa Haynie, in line with Nelon Streetman.

There have been no survivors.

The group was touring to hitch the Gaither Homecoming Cruise to Alaska, in line with an announcement from Gaither Music Group, the sponsor of the cruise that options quite a few gospel singers and teams.

Gaither Music stated Hodges was an assistant for the band. Larry Haynie was pilot of the plane, and Melissa Haynie was his spouse. The plane was recognized as a single engine turboprop Pilatus PC-12/47E.

The crash occurred about 1 p.m. native time in Campbell County, Wyoming, north of Gillette and about 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of Cheyenne, in line with an announcement from Campbell County spokesperson Leslie Perkins.

The Nationwide Transportation Security Board spokesperson Keith Holloway stated Saturday {that a} group of investigators is anticipated on the website later Saturday.

“The plane is in a distant location and as soon as they acquire entry, they may start documenting the scene, inspecting the plane,” Holloway stated. “The plane will then be recovered and brought to a safe facility for additional analysis.”

A preliminary report on the crash is anticipated in about 30 days whereas a last report with the possible reason for the crash may take as much as two years to finish, Holloway stated.

The Nelons have been inducted into the Gospel Music Affiliation Corridor of Fame in 2016 and have been winners of 10 GMA Dove Awards, together with a number of track of the 12 months and album of the 12 months awards.

You won’t see Russia on the 2024 Olympics, and you will not see them on the Opening Ceremony, however Russian athletes shall be competing — they will simply be doing so a special title: AIN.

So why the change and what does AIN stand for?

Russia has been compelled to compete beneath numerous names on the Olympics since 2016, the 12 months a number of Russian athletes had been discovered to concerned in a years-long, state-sponsored doping scheme that noticed them win a set of medals.

The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended Russia in 2017, however a number of Russian athletes who weren’t concerned within the scheme received an attraction to compete. These athletes had been required accomplish that beneath completely different names.

On the 2018 Winter Olympics, Russian athletes who handed drug checks competed beneath the “Olympic Athletes from Russia,” or OAR, delegation.

Throughout the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Russian athletes competed beneath the “Russian Olympic Committee,” or ROC, delegation.

This 12 months, nonetheless, they will have a wholly completely different title.

Here is what to know:

What does AIN stand for?

Russia is not going to compete as ROC in Paris. As a substitute, Russian athletes will fall beneath the Particular person Impartial Athletes delegation, or AIN (IOC nation code after the French title Athlètes Individuels Neutres).

Why did Russia change its title from ROC?

The ROC title really got here to be on the Tokyo Olympics since Russia was banned by the World Anti-Doping Company in 2019 for its state-sponsored doping program.

Russian athletes can compete in Paris, however they have to be authorised to take action.

The identical applies to Belarusian rivals. As of June 15, there have been a mixed 25 Russian and Belarusian athletes who had been authorised to compete in impartial occasions.

The athletes authorised to compete can not use the Russian flag or nationwide anthem all through the Olympics.

Russian and Belarusian athletes are additionally barred from collaborating within the Paris Opening Ceremony.

What number of Russian athletes shall be on the 2024 Olympics?

Russian athletes had been capped at a most of 55, and Belarusian had been capped at 28 — although that is not essentially

“The utmost quantity, which is unlikely to be reached, can be 55 and 28 respectively,” the IOC informed CNN.

For comparability’s sake, Russia had 330 athletes in Tokyo, whereas Belarus had 104.