From our Olympics correspondent in Paris – Palestinian athlete Omar Ismail was beaten in the last 16 of the men's flyweight taekwondo Wednesday, ending the 18-year-old's hopes of winning gold at the Paris Olympics. Fighters from Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia took to the mat in the Grand Palais, with two athletes from the Refugee Olympic Team also testing their mettle early in the day.
There’s a painting in Paris’s Musée du Louvre that shows a group of shepherds huddled around a pile of stones half-swallowed by green and growing things. The sunlight plays on their bare shoulders, and their heads are crowned with leaves. One man kneels down to trace the faded inscription with curious fingers. It’s a tomb. Death, the work’s title tells us, is here, too – even in Arcadia.
