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PARIS OLYMPICS OPENS WITH SPECTACULAR CEREMONY ON RIVER SEINE PARIS—The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics began Friday (Saturday dawn, Manila time), an unprecedented and ambitious show with up to 7,000 athletes parading down the River Seine past the historic monuments of the French capital despite the risk of rain dampening spirits. For the first time in Olympic history, the opening ceremony took place outside the main stadium, with some 300,000 people watching in person from specially built stands on the river banks, and another 200,000 from overlooking balconies and apartments.
As tradition dictates, the Greek delegation had the honor of leading out the flotilla, as the cradle of the modern Olympic movement. In an ambitious, high-risk departure from past opening ceremonies, the athletes sailed down the river in an armada of 85 boats. The show blended both French culture and history and great Olympic moments of the past while US pop star Lady Gaga wowed the crowd of VIPS and spectators with an early performance in the ceremony. Next page
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INCREDIBLE OPENING. Greece's delegation sails on a boat during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Friday (Saturday dawn, Manila time) as the Eiffel Tower is seen in the background. AFP
Brace for next flood during La Niña period Marcos warns more typhoons ahead; Wet school opening seen amid LPA By Charles Dantes, Rio Araja, Rex Espiritu, Maricel Cruz, Macon Ramos-Araneta and Othel Campos
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RESIDENT Marcos ordered national and local governments to prepare for future floods following the onslaught of Super Typhoon “Carina” and the enhanced southwest monsoon or “habagat” in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. "Let’s prepare for the next flood. This is the first typhoon during La Niña, and we still have a long way to go during this rainy season. So, we have to prepare for that,” Next page
READY FOR THE SUMMER GAMES. Boxer Hergie Bacyadan and fellow delegates
from Team Philippines, in their 'Sinag' barong designed by Francis Libiran, take a snapshot ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Instagram page of Hergie Bacyadan
Marcial, Paalam secure good draw, need just 2 wins for sure medal By Randy Caluag CARINA' AFTERMATH. President Marcos conducts an aerial
inspection of the floodway in Rizal to assess the extent of the damage and address the severe flooding in the province caused by Super Typhoon 'Carina.' In Navotas City, Speaker Martin Romualdez (inset) makes an inspection of the damaged Tangos-Tanza Navigational Gate and Pumping Station on Thursday afternoon, joined by Senior Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzales Jr., Committee on Appropriation chairman and Ako Bicol party-list Rep. Elizaldy Co, Navotas lone district Rep. Tobias Tiangco and Navotas City Mayor John Rey Tiangco. PPA Pool and Ver Noveno
French children on a boat carry the Olympic torch with a masked individual. The Olympic Games/Instagram
Marcos: Schools should open on July 29 By Charles Dantes , Rolando Ng III and Rex Espiritu PRESIDENT Marcos said the July 29 opening of schools will not be postponed even as he acknowledged that some schools in storm-hit areas might be forced to conduct classes outside their
buildings. "As much as possible, if the school buildings are in good shape for classes, they will hold them," he said on Friday. “There are only a few places with water left, but many have been left with mud, rendering them unusable. Additionally, there are damaged Next page materials that we'll have to replace.”
RACE AGAINST TIME. Crew
members of a private company secure containers to be used in the oil spill response at a port in Limay, Bataan after a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil capsized and sank off Manila on July 25, 2024. AFP
US singer Lady Gaga sings a song at the Sully bridge area before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024. AFP
PCG to siphon out sunken tanker's oil to avert disaster By Vince Lopez and Alena Mae Flores THE Philippine Coast Guard on Friday raced against time to find a way to siphon out some 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel
from a tanker that sank off the coast of Bataan province to avert what some say could be an environmental disaster of monumental proportions. PCG spokesman Rear Admiral Armando Balilo said the spill from MT Terra Next page
TOKYO Olympics medalists Eumir Marcial and Carlo Paalam secured a favorable draw with firstround byes, signaling a good start for the Philippine boxing team's quest for its first-ever Olympic boxing gold at the Paris Olympics. Competing in the men's 80kg division, Marcial will face Turabek Khabibullaev of Uzbekistan in the round of 16 while Paalam, now fighting in the 57kg category, will take on Ireland’s Jude Gallagher on Wednesday. Marcial might face a potential rematch with Ukraine’s Oleksandr Khyzhniak, who defeated him in a split decision during their semifinal bout in Tokyo, where Marcial settled for a bronze medal. Next page
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