France has been left humiliated after the opening day for the Paris Olympics quickly became a disaster, with travel chaos and flood warnings plaguing the historic occasion.
Just hours before the opening ceremony on the River Seine was due to kick off, vandals lit fires at key network stations bringing trains to a halt, in turn affecting 800,000 passengers – including athletes and spectators scrambling to get to the games.
Meanwhile, torrential downpours are expected to fall between 6pm and…