Team Japan not impacted by French practice assaults forward of opening ceremony

Paris –
The assaults that disrupted France’s high-speed rail system didn’t influence the Japanese delegation in Paris for the 2024 Olympics.

A sequence of assaults, together with arson, occurred on Friday, hours earlier than the deliberate begin of an formidable opening ceremony that can see athletes trip boats down a 6-km stretch of the River Seine. More than 10,000 athletes and hundreds of spectators will attend the opening ceremony, which would be the first held outdoors of a stadium.

Mitsugi Ogata, head of the Japanese delegation, mentioned there was no disruption to Team Japan.