Less than three and a half months before the opening of the Paris 2024 Games, the Olympic flame will be lit on Tuesday in Ancient Olympia, Greece, to begin a journey that will take it from the Acropolis to French Polynesia before arriving in the French capital on 26 July.

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.

Raja Sapta Oktohari, chairperson of the National Olympic Committee of Indonesia, announced that the committee is actively investigating the possibility of Indonesia hosting the 2036 Olympic Games.

During a visit to Fiji for the General Assembly of the Oceania National Olympic Committees, the IOC President said that digitalisation, e-sports and artificial intelligence are "the biggest challenges". An exhibition on the future benefits of these tools will be held in April.

The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, has strongly denied reports that Brisbane is considering cancelling its bid to host the Olympic Games in 2032.

The International Boxing Association (IBA) said on Thursday: "We will use all legal means to prove that we are right. The organisation criticised the IOC's decision last Tuesday to maintain its exclusion "if boxing is part of the LA 2028 programme". "There is no alternative," insisted the IBA, which also said the IOC's decisions are "politicised".

Last week, the President of the International World Games Association (IWGA), José Perurena, and the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, met at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland.

EMF representatives, together with a group of activists, staged a protest at the entrance to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Saturday. The protest was a "call to action" to demand that Israel be banned from the Olympic Games.

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.

The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, and the President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), Tayyab Ikram, have announced the hockey competition schedule for Paris 2024, which will take place from 27 July to 9 August.

Twenty-six French lawmakers have called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban Israel from competing in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris over the conflict in Gaza.

The Ukrainian Olympic Committee sent a letter to IOC President Thomas Bach last week, asking him to investigate the behaviour of Russian and Belarusian athletes ahead of the Paris 2024 Games, claiming they had failed to meet the conditions imposed and were "supporting aggression against Ukraine".

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach stated that the international recognition and participation of Wushu will play a crucial role in determining its future as an official sport of the Olympic Games, reports Xinhua.

"Next year or 'by 2026 at the latest'," International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach told Xinhua Sports last Monday. That's the date being considered for the first Olympic Esports Games, which Japan is bidding to host and where "artificial intelligence will play an important role".

The Ministry of Youth Sports and the NOC of Ukraine called on World Taekwondo (WT) to immediately review the decision and follow the example of the International Curling Federation (World Curling Federation) and other sports federations in suspending Russian and Belarusian athletes from all international competitions.