Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has claimed the Ryder Cup will help to optimise their plans for the Olympic Games as France prepares to host the event for the first time this week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paris 2024 have established Audit and Ethics Committees at their latest Board meeting at Roland-Garros.
New sports are likely to face a tougher battle to be added onto the Paris 2024 Olympic programme due to concerns over the ballooning size of the Games.
Three different variations of boules have begun at the Mediterranean Games as the sport’s leaders hope their sport will make the transformation to an Olympic place at Paris 2024.
The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Bureau has "strongly and unanimously supported" the confirmation of the sport’s Olympic events at Paris 2024 being held in Versailles.
Paris 2024 has officially appointed Anne Descamps, director of development and communications for Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche party, as its director of communications.
Paris will mark the first Olympic Day since it won the 2024 Games with a programme of sporting activities and demonstrations throughout the city on Saturday (June 23).
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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