French banking group Groupe BPCE has become the first to join Paris 2024's national partnership programme for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been announced.
World Sailing have expressed shock and disappointment after the sport failed with its bid for reinstatement onto the Paralympic Games programme at Paris 2024.
Sailing has failed with its bid to be reinstated onto the Paralympic Games programme at Paris 2024 after failing to meet the required criteria, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced today.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Los Angeles counterpart Eric Garcetti are hopeful of making the Olympic Games more sustainable, with both cities preparing to stage the multi-sport event.
As the summer holiday ends organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games met with school children in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, as part of their ongoing initiative to promote education and sport.
Double Olympic fencing champion Laura Flessel has announced her decision to resign as France's Sports Minister for "personal reasons" and will be replaced by Roxana Maracineanu.
Los Angeles 2028 has taken its first major steps towards launching its marketing plan to raise $2.5 billion (£2 billion/€2.2 billion) in sponsorship, it has been reported.
Paris, which will host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2024, is staging another major multi-sport event from tomorrow - the 10th edition of the Gay Games, which continues until August 12.
Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has signed a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) engagement charter on behalf of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the French capital.
In a press release published after the first day of the recent Executive Board meeting in Lausanne, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) declared they had made decisions which ensured future Games would be full of "passion and excitement".
New sports will be provisionally approved for the Paris 2024 Olympics at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Session scheduled for Milan in October 2019, it has been announced here in Lausanne.
International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) director general Attila Adamfi has claimed they have gone beyond the requirements outlined by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the sport to preserve its Olympic status.
Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 have vowed to cooperate in areas including legacy and cost-cutting after the two Organising Committees signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here today.
International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamás Aján has warned countries here at the world governing body’s Congress that the sport will "slowly disappear" if it loses its place on the Olympic Games programme.
Paris 2024 have established Audit and Ethics Committees at their latest Board meeting at Roland-Garros.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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