Paris Olympics day one — in pictures

The Paris Olympics proper kicked off Saturday with the first medal competitions of the Games. Here's some of the best photos from the first day of competition.

Shin Yu-bin in action during a round of 16 mixed doubles table tennis match at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Paris on Saturday. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

The Paris Olympics proper kicked off Saturday with the first medal competitions of the Games, China winning the first gold of the tournament in mixed air rifle shooting with Korea and Germany joining them on podium.

Here's some of the best photos from the first day of competition.

Rain is visible before the start of the men's beach volleyball tournament at Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris on Saturday. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

Choi Dong-yeol competes in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke heats at the Paris Olympics at Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France on Saturday. [NEWS1]

Jessica Fox of Australia competes in the women's kayak single heats during the canoe slalom at the Paris Olympics in Vaires-sur-Marne, France on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Song Se-ra cheers after winning her round of 32 match in the individual women's epee event at the Grand Palais in Paris on Saturday. [NEWS1]

Darlan Ferreira Souza of Brazil, right, blocks the ball during the group B volleyball game against Italia at the Paris Olympics in Paris on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Boheng Zhang of China competes on the parallel bars during a men's artistic gymnastics qualification round at the Paris Olympics in Paris on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Sweden and Australia compete in men's beach volleyball at Eiffel Tower Stadium at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Fiji's Selesitino Ravutaumada goes over the line to score a try during the men's semifinal Rugby Sevens match between Fiji and Australia at the Paris Olympics, in the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, France on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Argentina's Luciano Gondou, right, celebrates after scoring during the men's Group B football match at the Paris Olympics against Iraq at the Lyon stadium in Decines, France on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Sweden's Agnes Alexiusson, right, hits Ecuador's Maria Jose Palacios Espinoza in the women's 60 kilogram preliminary boxing match at the Paris Olympics in Paris, France on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Tobias Foss of Norway competes in the men's cycling time trial event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Justen Blok of the Netherlands, left, competes with Keenan Horne of South Africa during the men's pool of hockey in Paris, France on Saturday. [XINHUA/YONHAP]

Bruno Caboclo of Brazil grabs a rebound over Frank Ntilikina and Nicolas Batum of France in a men's basketball game at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Igor Radivilov of Ukraine competes on the vault during a men's artistic gymnastics qualification round at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Paris, France on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Kite foil surfers train in the bay of Marseille, Frane on the eve of the beginning of the sailing events at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

Lena Hentschel and Jette Muller of Germany compete in the women's synchronized 3m springboard final at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Saint Denis, Paris on Saturday. [EPA/YONHAP]

Islam Satpayev, right, of Kazakhstan uses his phone to take a selfie with fellow medal winners teammate Alexandra Le, second right, and right to left, gold medalists China's Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting, and silver medalists Korea's Park Ha-jun and Keum Ji-hyeon after the medal ceremony for the 10m air rifle mixed team competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Chateauroux, France on Saturday. [AP/YONHAP]

Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns the ball during a men's singles first round tennis match against Matthew Ebden of Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Paris on September. [XINHUA/YONHAP]

Korea's Kim Woo-min enters the water to start the men's 400-meter freestyle final at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Paris on Saturday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Japan's Connor O'Leary tucks into the barrel during a surfing training session in Teahupo'o on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

Korea's Kim Woo-min poses with his bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Paris on Saturday. [YONHAP]

A fan cheers for Team France during a men's semifinal rugby sevens match against South Africa in Stade de France in Paris on Saturday. France went on to take gold in the event. [XINHUA/YONHAP]

Korea's Oh Sang-uk, left, and Tunisia's Fares Ferjani compete in the men's sabre individual gold medal bout during the Paris 2024 Olympics at the Grand Palais in Paris on Saturday. [AFP/YONHAP]

BY JIM BULLEY [jim.bulley@joongang.co.kr]