Paris 2024

IOC insists it has 'full confidence' in security measures for 2024 Paris Olympics

France's reputation for policing sporting events took a battering following chaos at the Champions League final.

Paris Olympics 2024: French president Emmanuel Macron holds meeting to calm concerns

The Olympics should be a centrepiece of the freshly re-elected Macron's second term, projecting an image of a France comfortable in its modern identity and open to the world.

'Holes in the racquet': Paris Olympics organisers sweat over host of security concerns

The Champions League final debacle set alarm bells ringing with next year's Rugby World Cup being hosted in France but most of all for those dealing with security issues around the Olympics.

After making history at Tokyo Olympics, Bhavani Devi training for Paris 2024 under legendary sabre master Christian Bauer

Christian Bauer, a fencing coach who specialises in sabre, has coached fencers to multiple Olympic medals. At Athens 2004, he guided Aldo Montano to gold. At Beijing 2008, he helped the Chinese to medals. At London 2012 and Rio 2016, The Russians won multiple medals with him at the helm.

President Emmanuel Macron wants Paris Olympics 2024 to turn France into a sportier nation

"The aim is not simply to get medals, it will be to put sport at the heart of the nation," Macron said, as he visited Olympic building sites and existing sports facilities in northern Paris.

Hockey India withdraws teams from Birmingham CWG citing COVID concerns, discriminatory quarantine rules

Hockey India's decision comes a day after England's withdrawal from the junior men's World Cup in Bhubaneswar over similar reasons.

Three-year Olympic cycle for Paris 2024 will be tricky, says Abhinav Bindra

"I see the next Olympics cycle will be tricky, primarily because of the shorter cycle. Normally athletes get a year post-Olympics that allows them to rest and recover, but this time around they need to get back pretty quickly," Bindra said.

'Space Olympics’ concludes at ISS with astronauts performing incredible closing ceremony’

Since being shared on Twitter, the video has gained over 1.7 million views and 25,000 likes

'Space Olympics’ concludes at ISS as astronauts host closing ceremony; watch video here

Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet hosted the ‘Space Olympics’ at the ISS recently

WADA's Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor urges Russia not to drag out ban appeal

WADA banned Russia from the world’s top sporting events on Monday for four years - including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup - for tampering with doping tests.