Olympic Games: Archery competition begins at Invalides

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00:00France 24's Diptika Lajon went to check out the archery competition that's got underway

00:04at the iconic Place de l'Invalide here in Paris without a public for a series of logistical

00:10reasons.

00:11We're here in the heart of Paris at the Invalide Esplanade where the archery competition has

00:21gotten underway for the Olympic Games.

00:24Now Paris holds a very special place for the sport of archery because it was here at the

00:291900 Paris Olympic Games that archery made its Olympic debut.

00:34This year athletes from 53 countries are vying for a medal in the archery competition

00:40of them Uzbekistan which is making its Olympic debut here in Paris this year.

00:46I don't think we can win because our athletes have not too much high quality I think but

00:58I hope.

00:59Now archery can also celebrate the fact that this year it has achieved complete gender

01:05equality of the 128 archers in competition, 64 are men and 64 are women.

01:13Just across the road from me at Les Invalides the qualifications of the archery competition

01:18got underway this Thursday.

01:21There were no spectators present but some curious locals and passers-by did come here

01:26to see the final touches being put on the opening ceremony preparations.

01:31Brilliant.

01:32We're going to love seeing all the barges go by with all the athletes and it's going

01:36to be a unique experience.

01:37And it's going to be very good for Paris I think.

01:39Security is at its highest ahead of Friday's opening ceremony taking place on the Seine

01:45River which hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend.

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