The Seine will play a starring role at Paris 2024, but now all the eyes are focused on its waters. Pollution and dirt, the uncertainty surrounding the opening ceremony on barges on the river and the possibility of events being cancelled are all major concerns with just three months to go.

into contact with the water, including athletes.Last August, just one year before the thirty-third Olympic

Games of the modern era, the marathon swimming trials were cancelled because the water was too dirty

other famous landmarks, including the Musée d'Orsay and the Grand Palais.Open water, triathlon and marathon

kilometres across France, remains contaminated and potentially dangerous in the Paris area, where the Olympic

admitted that there was not only a Plan B, but even a Plan C for the party that will inaugurate the third Olympic

On Thursday, London mayor Sadiq Khan unveiled his strategy to "fully cement London’s reputation as the undisputed sports capital of the world." He outlined his intentions to pursue additional prestigious events, contingent on his re-election next week.

spanning from 2016 to 2023 amounted to an impressive $1.2 billion.The economic impact of the London 2012 Olympic

He'll also team up with events like the London Marathon and Ride London to promote physical activity

Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa was the main headliner as she eyed her first London Marathon win, but Peres Jepchirchir

The Olympic champion surged clear in the closing stages to win in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds

the first to drop back as the pace increased approaching the finish.Jepchirchir suffered her first marathon

finished over four minutes outside Assefa's absolute world record from last September's Berlin Marathon

🇰🇪 pic.twitter.com/FdcB4sq1Kt— TCS London Marathon (@LondonMarathon) April 21, 2024Jepchirchir told

Emile Cairess of Great Britain was third.A three-time Olympic gold medallist on the track, Bekele was

Alexander Mutiso Munyao, from Kenya, won the 2024 London Marathon.

London Marathon director Hugh Brasher has announced a 30-second applause before Sunday's race in memory

Kenya's 24-year-old marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum died on 11 February along with his coach

We will mourn without understanding the man he was or would have been," said Brasher.London Marathon

We always take precautions in case people try to disrupt the London Marathon.

be one of the Official Starters at this year’s TCS London Marathon.— TCS London Marathon (@LondonMarathon

to complete the Barkley ultra-endurance marathons, will start the women's elite race, while double Olympic

A few weeks back came the announcement of the Friendship Games, to be held in Russia in September. Total prize money across all sports: $100 million. Winners get $40,000. Second place, $25,000. Third: $17,000.

On Wednesday, World Athletics, the No. 1 sport in the Olympic landscape, made a precedent-setting move

 For the most part, however, funds are distributed to a welter of national Olympic committees or

—In an Olympic context: Will there be advertising on Olympic uniforms?

In and around the Olympic fields of play? Should there be?

Let us all recall before the Tokyo Games when the IOC abruptly moved the marathon (hello, World Athletics

The marathon swimming quota for Paris 2024 has been redistributed ahead of next summer's Olympic competition

World Aquatics (WA) has announced the reallocation of one marathon swimming quota spot for the upcoming

Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The spot has been reallocated to the South American country of Peru (PER).The remaining National Olympic

Committees (NOCs) have all accepted their quotas for the Olympic Marathon Swimming events.

diving, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving - and is recognised by the International Olympic

of the River Seine, which will be used for triathlon and open water swimming competitions during the Olympic

800 kilometres across France, remains contaminated and potentially dangerous in the Paris area, where Olympic

Paris authorities are in a race against time to clean up the Seine before the Olympic Games begin on

26 July, with the famous river set to play a starring role in the marathon swimming and triathlon events

The organisers have always maintained that Olympic sports can only be held in the river if the weather

Olympic open water swimming has often been marred by pollution concerns, both in Tokyo Bay and Rio de

A number of hosts have been approved by the International Canoe Federation (ICF) to host World Cups and World Championships in eight of the ten International Canoe Federation disciplines from 2026 to 2028.

Battles were fought for the rights to host the 2028 Canoe Marathon World Championships and the 2028 Junior

 Banyoles, Spain, was awarded the 2028 Canoe Marathon World Championships after beating Pitesti-Bascov

 Kayak Cross will make its Olympic debut at Paris 2024.

 Canoeing has two Olympic disciplines, with Sprint introduced at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

and Slalom at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

The streets of the French capital will be the scene of a popular marathon this Sunday, with around 54,000

The route will be different from the Olympic event, but it will serve as an appetizer, with Ethiopia's

Olympic Games.

The route of the marathon will be different from that of the Olympic event, but it will still be an incentive

The 2016 Olympic 5,000m champion has not run a marathon since 2019.

Also missing from Sunday's race will be double Olympic champion Kipchoge, who paid tribute to Kiptum.This

For the Olympic Games, the marathon will start at the Paris City Hall and head towards Versailles.

Kenya's double Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge and Peres Jepchirchir, the defending women's champion,

were announced on Thursday as part of a star-studded marathon team for the upcoming Paris Olympics,

Eliud Kipchoge will be running in his fifth Olympic Games - and has won he missed out on London 2012

"The journey begins as we defend our crown," Kenya's National Olympic Committee said on X.Incase you

missed it: here is our marathon team to the Paris 24 Games.

marathon squad boasts an impressive line-up of athletes.

to make a significant impact at the upcoming Olympic Games.The month before, Kipchoge finished 10th at

Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo and Kenya's Beatrice Chebet successfully defended their world cross country titles in Belgrade on Saturday, confirming the absolute dominance of the African continent at this event.

year's World Athletics Championships in Budapest," said Kiplimo, the world record holder in the half marathon

My goal this year is to do what Joshua Cheptegei did and win an Olympic gold.

With 70 days to go, an exciting and iconic half marathon route has been unveiled, taking in many of Rome's

For the first time since Gothenburg 2006, the half marathon or marathon course at an European Athletics

 Italy won't be without medal chances in the half marathon either.

Fori Imperiali, with the magical Colosseum behind us, to the Foro Italico Park and the finish in the Olympic

the half marathon was introduced in 2016 for the Olympic year editions of the event and will serve as

Stefano Baldini, the legendary Olympic champion, won the gold medal in Budapest in 1998, leading a triple

Data from Kolsquare's report 'Paris2024': The Olympics of Influence' reveals an unprecedented scenario. Interactions between athletes, fans and the general public across multiple social networks and platforms reveal data and records never seen before.

GETTY IMAGESIf the Olympic Games want to win over young viewers and the new generations, and they have

different types of media and supporting them.NBC has teamed up with Twitch, which owns the rights to the Olympic

Now it matters as much or more than Eliud Kipchoge breaking the marathon world record in Paris in 2024

The Olympic Games have arrived in the midst of this scenario, which exists in many other fields, but

On 8 March, International Women's Day, the International Olympic Committee's achievement for the upcoming

Paris 2024 Olympic Games: there will be an equal number of male and female athletes, full gender parity

The Olympic Broadcasting Services will also have gender parity. IOC launched #GenderEqualOlympics.

commitment to gender equality has led to a steady increase in the number of female athletes at the Olympic

Starting with just 2.2 per cent in Paris 1900, where women competed at the Olympic Games for the first

Games and in sport in general".The evolution of women's participation in the Olympic Games, edition

and Paralympic Games is one of the objectives of Olympic Broadcasting Services.

 Also for the first time, the women's marathon will be held the day after the men's event and will

The main event, a running marathon along the Fujairah and Umbrella Corniche, will be organised by the

There will be seven events, one in each emirate, with Fujairah hosting the main event, a walking marathon

 The announcement was made at the National Olympic Committee in Dubai.

Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, President of the National Olympic

the National Sports Day Initiative.The announcement was made at an event organised by the National Olympic

press conference, His Excellency Abdulaziz Al Salman, Member of the Board of Directors of the National Olympic