The Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the composition of the Paris 2024 team on Tuesday and it includes reigning Olympic singles champion Ma Long. This will be the fourth Olympic Games for Long. Currently ranked third in the world, the 'Hexagonal Warrior', as he is known in his country, has a total of 5 Olympic medals. However, he will not be defending his singles title this time around.

Numerous top-tier athletes celebrated their participation in the French Diving Open, a three-day event that also served as an official test for the new Olympic Aquatics Centre in Paris.

The X account of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra,the French Minister for Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, was hacked on Friday 11 May. The profile has since been restored.

Kylian Mbappe received the title of France's player of the year at a awards event in Paris on Monday ahead of the upcoming Paris Olympics, marking the culmination of his seven-season tenure with Paris Saint-Germain.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) revealed plans on Monday for an extraordinary session later this week to address the situation involving 23 Chinese swimmers who were found to have traces of a prescription heart medication in their system.

Still on the Mediterranean coast, the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch visited a new region on Monday. With no clouds in the sky, the torch illuminated the main towns of Millau, Sète and Montpellier, all of which are located in the southern part of the Occitania region. 

The Parisian subsoil, from the famous catacombs to the sewers and metro tunnels, is coming out of the shadows as the Olympic Games (26 July - 11 August) approach, along with the safety requirements that go with them. 

Great Britain's Jess Varley got herself back on the podium after securing a silver medal in the Pentathlon World Cup held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The fencer Ysaora Thibus, suspended after a positive anti-doping test, will face perhaps the most important battle of her career to keep dreaming of Paris 2024, defending herself before the Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Fencing Federation.

The Golden Fly Series returns to Innsbruck, Austria. On Saturday 18 May, the world's top athletes in pole vault and long jump will once again grace Innsbruck's vibrant Maria-Theresien-Strasse for an exhilarating outdoor track and field event.

Swimming sensation Katie Ledecky has revealed she was left "speechless" after being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by United States President Joe Biden.

Nigeria's 100m hurdle record-holder, Tobi Amusan, stole the show during the debut Jamaica Athletics Invitational on Saturday 11 May.

The President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf, has issued a statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a field of research in computer science that is growing and will continue to do so in the coming months and years.

The fourth leg of the Olympic Torch Relay has made another stop in the Bouches-du-Rhône. After the arrival of the Olympic Torch and the first stage in Marseille, other key sites in the region were highlighted on the way to Arles, the host city of the stage.