Nadal blocking Djokovic’s path

Top seed Novak Djokovic could face 14-time French Open champion Rafa Nadal in a blockbuster second-round match in the Olympics men’s singles after the draw was made at Roland Garros. Women’s top Iga Swiatek of Poland, who will be overwhelming favourite after winning her third successive French Open crown last month, meets Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu while second seed Coco Gauff faces Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic. India’s top singles player Sumit Nagal will begin his campaign against French Moutet Corentin. In the men’s doubles, Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji have been drawn to meet the French team of Fabien Reboul and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

Robbery at Argentina team base before game

Argentina men’s football coach Javier Mascherano said the team’s Olympics training base was robbed before its chaotic tournament-opening loss to Morocco. The Argentina delegation filed a police complaint in Lyon, the prosecutor’s office of nearby Saint-Etienne said today. “They went into training and they robbed us, in the Olympic Games,” Mascherano said after his team’s shocking 2-1 loss. Mascherano said midfielder Thiago Almada’s watch was among the items taken. Agencies

Skaters off their boards at village

The Paris Games have fully embraced skateboarding, with its youthful appeal and blockbuster television ratings, but skaters say they have to stay off their boards inside the Olympics village. American women’s park competitor Minna Stess had been eager to ride her board around the 52-hectare village, where some 14,500 athletes and their staff are free to mingle without the Covid restrictions that limited competitors at the Tokyo Games. There was just one problem with that plan.

“You get yelled at,” said the 18-year-old Stess.