Exactly one month before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the authorities are finalising the organisational details of an event that will have the eyes of the world on Paris. Many challenges remain in a France unsettled by early elections.

Martin Müller, a professor at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne

between 18,000 and 22,000 private security guards will be needed during the weeks of the Games.Marc Guillaume

On the Olympic Day (23 June 2024), which coincides with the centenary of the first Winter Olympics (Chamonix-Mont-Blanc 192), the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay set off to light up the Haute-Savoie region for a historic and symbolic day.

 -Guillaume Baillargé - Mountain Military School - Mountain guide.You got the Olympic Flame 🔥Avant

 To preserve the symbols so dear to Paris 2024, Martin Fourcade, the renowned five-time Olympic

Cyclers Guillaume Martin and Nathalie Diart lead the flame-bearing peloton.

Riding alongside Guillaume Martin, the captain of this relay, was Nathalie Diart, a former road cyclist

For the first time in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Paris 2024 Torch Relay will be carried by teams to symbolise the energy of sport and teamwork.

CaptainsThe Paris 2024 Organising Committee has unveiled some of the team relay captains, including Guillaume

Martin (winner of the mountain classification at the 2021 Vuelta a España), Manuéla Montebrun (bronze

Spain’s Ion Izagirre stormed to his second stage victory at the Tour de France - seven years after claiming his first win.

We were going well with Guillaume Martin all day."

Guillaume and I rode very well all day. On the last climb I felt strong.

A thunderstorm postponed the last three medal races on the second day of canoe sprint finals at the Munich 2022 European Championships, but hosts Germany added two golds to their haul in the events that took place.

, beating Slovakia's Samuel Baláž, Denis Myšák, Csaba Zalka and Adam Botek by 0.595sec and France's Guillaume

Burger, Maxime Beaumont, Quilian Koch and Guillaume Le Floch by 0.620.Sebastian Brendel later outsprinted

day, triumphing in the men's C1 1,000m in 3:49.681 to edge out Czech Republic's defending champion Martin

The Fencing World Championships ended today in Cairo, with Hungary and Italy claiming the final team gold medals of the competition in the women's sabre and men's foil.

Eloisa Passaro 45-43, and in the semi-finals, they won 45-31 over Spanish quartet Elena Hernandez, Lucia Martin-Portugues

the men's foil ©Getty ImagesIn the men's foil, Italy and the United States met in the final.Italians Guillaume

Slovenian Primož Roglič of Jumbo-Visma maintained his lead in the general classification of the Paris-Nice race, by winning a sprint with Colombian Daniel Martinez in Col de Turini.

Brandon McNulty of UAE Team Emirates, Australian Jack Haig of Bahrain Victorious, Adam Yates, France's Guillaume

Martin of Cofidis and Dutch rider Wout Poels of Bahrain Victorious, who completed the top 10.In the

Poland’s Rafal Majka held off all challengers to win stage 15 of the Vuelta a España, after succeeding with an ambitious solo breakaway move with 87 kilometres to go.

Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux' retained the leader’s red jersey, La Roja, by 54 seconds from France’s Guillaume

Martin of Cofidis.Primož Roglič of Slovenia, riding for Team Jumbo-Visma, remains third in the overall

Romain Bardet stormed to victory on a brutal 14th stage of the Vuelta a España, as leader Odd Christian Eiking kept the red jersey but saw rivals including Primož Roglič eat into his lead.

back in third.Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux's Eiking also lost four seconds to Cofidis Frenchman Guillaume

Martin in a fragmented finish, so his overall lead is down to 54 seconds.Another mountain stage awaits

Florian Sénéchal picked up the first Grand Tour stage win of his career as Deceuninck-QuickStep won the 13th stage of the Vuelta a España - although not through the intended rider.

leading riders in he general classification - including leader Odd Christian Eiking, Cofidis Frenchman Guillaume

Martin and two-time defending champion Primož Roglič were 11 seconds back.Norway's Eiking, riding for

Magnus Cort Nielsen sprinted to victory on the 12th stage of the Vuelta a España, emerging victorious from a small bunch in Cordoba, while Odd Christian Eiking retains the overall race lead.

riding for Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, maintains a 58-second advantage over Cofidis Frenchman Guillaume

Martin in the general classification.Roglič looms large, 1min 56sec back in third.A flat stage tomorrow

Slovenian Primoz Roglič lost the race lead on the tenth stage of the Vuelta a España after crashing, while Michael Storer of Australia won a second stage of this year’s race after riding clear of a large breakaway.

Eiking, the new race leader.In the general classification, Eiking has a 58 second lead over France’s Guillaume

Martin of Cofidis, with Roglič in third place at 2:17 adrift.Two Movistar riders complete the overall

Britain’s Victoria Rumary won her second gold of the Para-archery world ranking event at Nové Město in the Czech Republic, a tournament that doubled as a qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

Petrilli victorious against Russia’s Margarita Sidorenko 6-2.The men’s recurve open category saw top seed Guillaume

for grabs was the visually impaired, a mixed gender category which featured only three archers.Daniel Martin

Sepp Kuss became the first American to win a stage of the Tour de France in a decade as Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar tightened his grip on the yellow jersey going into the final week of the event.

Richard Carapaz, of INEOS Grenadiers, at 5:33 and Australia’s Ben O’Connor, of AG2R-Citroen, at 5:58.Guillaume

Martin of France, who had moved up to within five minutes of the overall leader after stage 14, dropped