Boxing team begins race for next Olympic Games
After failing to make the Japan 2020 Olympic Games, a Nigerian boxing team is in Dakar, Senegal, fighting to win slots in the Paris 2024 edition of the Games.
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Process to add breaking, flag football, other sports to 2028 Olympics unexpectedly delayed
Cricket, breakdancing and flag football are still waiting to find out if they will be added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Thierry Henry eyes gold rush on home turf after taking over as France Olympic coach
Fifty weeks from Wednesday, the men’s finalists in the Olympic Games football tournament will be plotting how to make the difference between gold and silver. All things going to plan, one of those squads will be anticipating a wave of patriotic fervor at the Parc des Princes, venue of the final.
A year without rugby - Aoibheann Reilly primed for new season with Connacht
After a year out of the game, Aoibheann Reilly is just happy to be back playing rugby.
Two years after Olympic defection, Belarusian sprinter cleared to race for Poland
GENEVA : Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, the Belarusian sprinter who defected at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago, has been cleared by World Athletics to compete for Poland after it waived the normal three-year waiting period for nationality changes.
Coach Shui takes on pressure as China keep last 16 hopes alive
ADELAIDE : China coach Shui Qingxia brought her Asian Cup-winning team to Australia hoping to move a step closer to restoring the Steel Roses to their former glories, more than two decades after losing to the United States in the Women's World Cup final.
The one-year countdown to the Paris Olympics begins: Watch FRANCE 24's special programme
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Peace-themed torch design unveiled for Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Creator Mathieu Lehanneur said the rounded torch was symmetrical from top to bottom and through 360 degrees, its soft curves representing peacefulness and its symmetry standing for equality between athletes.