Weightlifting will be granted full inclusion on the programme for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris once the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has handed over its entire anti-doping operation to the International Testing Agency (ITA), it was announced here today.
An ongoing inquiry into the International Boxing Association (AIBA) reaches a key milestone this week as the first findings are set to be presented to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board when it holds its latest meeting here.
Britain's marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe took part in an event to encourage girls aged between 13 and 18 to participate in sport during the build-up to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) and World Squash Federation (WSF) have written a joint statement to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), seeking clarification on the selection process for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The delivery body of Paris 2024 has launched the call for tenders for the construction of the Olympic and Paralympic Village.
American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad has criticised attitudes in France towards the hijab, a debate becoming increasingly bitter in the build-up to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
Germany and Britain have been announced by the International Canoe Federation (ICF) as the hosts of 2023 World Championships, events which will double as qualifiers for the following year's Olympic Games in Paris.
Europe finished on top as the first World Team Trophy in cue sports concluded today in Roissy-en-France near Paris, with a new format of competition involving men and women competing in snooker, carom and pool.
World Karate Federation (WKF) President Antonio Espinós has claimed it is "simply not logical" to exclude the sport from the Paris 2024 programme before its Olympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020 and has vowed that the international governing body will "continue fighting until the end" for the "restoration of its honour and its athletes' rights".
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) are targeting inclusion at continental and youth Games after failing with a bid for Paris 2024 Olympic inclusion.
Paris 2024 made sure of the headlines when they announced they wanted breakdancing on their shortlist of preferred sports.
Discussions on the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics took place at the inaugural United Kingdom-France Mayors' Summit in London.
Paris 2024 has stated it will not be reconsidering its proposal for new sports on the programme of the Olympic Games in five years' time after holding a meeting with leading figures from karate, which was controversially excluded.
Karate will tomorrow step up its campaign to reverse a decision not to include it on the programme of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris by meeting French officials.
There are growing signs of opposition among French groups in the build-up to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris to the hijab and other items of Islamic clothing
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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Jakob Larsen, head of the Organising Committee for this week's International Association of Athletics Federations World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, wants to provoke a serious debate about the sport returning to the Olympic programme, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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