A dispute over the ownership of stand-up paddling is damaging the sport's chances of featuring at Paris 2024 and needs to be resolved soon if the discipline is to be included on the Olympic programme, according to the head of the Association of Paddlesurf Professionals (APP).
Valérie Pécresse, President of the Île-de-France region, has said the commissioning of the railway line that will link Charles de Gaulle Airport and Gare de l'Est for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games is "untenable".
World Sailing's ruling Council ignored a recommendation from the Equipment Committee to use the RS Aero for the one-person dinghy events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and instead approved the laser class at its mid-year meeting in London.
Paris 2024 organisers have made significant savings on the construction of their Olympic and Paralympic Athletes' Village by reducing the number of beds that will be required following an intensive consultation exercise with National Olympic Committees.
RS:X could be dropped as the equipment for the windsurfing events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after the World Sailing Equipment Committee rejected a recommendation made by the Board of Directors.
World Sailing could move away from holding a bidding process for its World Cup Final after the organisation's Events Committee recommended Paris and Los Angeles stage the event in the four years before the cities host the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games.
Paris 2024 welcomed 20 people with disabilities to work in collaboration with their staff as part of the DuoDay initiative.
Confirmation of the equipment to be used in three classes on the Olympic programme at Paris 2024 is expected to move a step closer when World Sailing holds its mid-year meeting in London this weekend.
Paris 2024 has welcomed the certainty of weightlifting’s place on the programme for the Olympic Games, after its conditional status was lifted.
Olympic champion Giles Scott of Britain claimed the axing of the finn class from the Paris 2024 Olympic sailing programme had been a "bitter pill to swallow".
The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) organised a meeting with French representatives to express their common position on the inscription of the Olympic values on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
The World Karate Federation (WKF) campaign to secure the inclusion of the sport on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games programme was one of the items on the agenda during two days of meetings of the governing body’s stakeholders in the French capital.
The French National Research Agency (ANR) has called for the science and sport communities to register their interest in contributing to a programme designed to improve the performance of home athletes at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
World number five Dominic Thiem has announced his intention to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, having opted to miss Tokyo 2020.
The National Sports Agency (ANS) - which will govern French sport - has been launched in a bid to improve the country's performance at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
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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