The torch brought together many people to celebrate this symbolic date in the countdown, from Biarritz to Pau. Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee, visited his home region to take part in a collective relay in a kayak and also on a surfboard as athletes and para-athletes shared the torch.

The Olympic flame will be one of the stars of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival this Tuesday, just over two months before the thirty-third Olympic Games.

The 2026 Winter Games organising committee’s offices are under investigation from Italy’s financial police, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, citing alleged irregularities over the selection of digital sponsors.

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has removed former Australian Olympic basketballer Danny Morseu from its Indigenous Advisory Committee (IAC) following his assault conviction last Wednesday.

The Ligue 1 initiative to support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities was widely celebrated this weekend, but a few footballers, like Mohamed Camara, boycotted the league-mandated goodwill action, a decision Amelie Oudea-Catera deemed “unacceptable'.

The International Fencing Federation has completed its 2023-2024 Senior World Cup competition season. The four events were held last weekend, from 17 to 19 May 2024.

Ghana's women's long jump record holder, Deborah Acquah, stated  president of the Ghana Olympic Committee, Ben Nunoo Mensah, failed to deliver on his promise to provide her support after she injured her Achilles at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene: a claim that Mensah has denied.

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has accused World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Banka of defaming US athletes in an attempt to divert attention from WADA's handling of the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive ahead of Tokyo 2020.

Taekwondo athlete Farzad Mansouri was the flag bearer for Afghanistan at Tokyo 2020, but he left the country when the Taliban captured Kabul.

The French Interior Ministry has remained unresponsive since early May regarding a collective letter from Russian volunteers who were barred from working at the Olympic Games in Paris, Russian news agency TASS has been told.

Newly crowned European champion Kimia Alizadeh is targeting Olympic gold at Paris 2024, Reuters reports.

"Like every other athlete, I am targeting the gold medal in Paris which is our main goal. I wake up every day for the gold medal in Paris and I'm trying my best and I give 100% to achieve this goal," Alizadeh said.

This second pre-Olympic tournament will award 51 quotas, 23 for women and 28 for men, from 24 May to 2 June in the Thai capital. A total of 188 tickets have already been awarded. These were distributed through the continental qualifiers and the first pre-Olympic tournament in Italy.

Ukraine will send a team of athletes to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this year despite the ongoing war with Russia, as announced by Sports Minister Matviy Bidnyi in Kyiv on Monday.

Following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter accident, the Iranian Olympic and Paralympic Committees have lowered their flags to half-mast and named their Paris 2024 sports delegation "Khadem-ol Reza".

Olympic champion Noah Lyles claimed the 150m title at the Atlanta City Games last Saturday, clocking a 14.41 seconds. While Lyles failed to break Usain Bolt’s world record, he equalled Tyson Gay’s American best, set in 2010— tying him for the fastest American man in history.