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Olympic medallists Borch and Prakaten suffer exits at World Rowing Championships

  • Rowing

Olympic silver medallists Kjetil Borch of Norway and Anna Prakaten of Uzbekistan exited in the respective men’s and women’s single sculls quarter-finals at the World Rowing Championships in Belgrade.

Borch and Prakaten left Tokyo 2020 with silver medals but now face missing Paris 2024 after a bad day

switched from Russia to Uzbekistan in order to compete internationally but her hopes of qualifying for Paris

Manuela Diening finished in the top two in her PR1 women’s singles sculls repechage to seal a ticket to Paris

Croatia’s Martin Sinkovic and Valent Sinkovic were the other quarter-final winners.There were more tickets

secured for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in the Para rowing disciplines with the top two in both


Hosts Chile face tough men's handball draw at Santiago 2023 Pan American Games

  • Santiago 2023

Hosts Chile have been handed a tough group in the men's handball tournament at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games which features three of the semi-finalists from four years ago.

Pan American Games serves as an Olympic qualifier in handball, with the winners securing a place at Paris

2024.Organisers have reported 81.9 per cent of available tickets have been sold for men's matches and




Blind football and goalball teams earn Paris 2024 Paralympic places at IBSA World Games

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

Two goalball teams and three blind football teams have secured places for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

With one year to go until Paris 2024, Japan and China booked tickets in the men's and women's goalball

defeated Japan 3-0 in the women’s final.There are more qualification opportunities in goalball for the Paris

November, and European A and African Championships in December, double as a qualification opportunity for Paris

the bronze-medal match.Argentina, Brazil and Colombia had already secured their qualifications for Paris

2024 by reaching the semi-finals.China had already booked a ticket to Paris by winning the 2022 IBSA


Coe praises Orbán after World Championships and encourages Budapest Olympic bid

  • Budapest 2023

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has encouraged Budapest to bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games after a World Championships here which set "a new blueprint", and offered praise for controversial Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

IOC reported this had discussed "Hungary's contribution to world sport, the upcoming Olympic Games Paris

situation".Hungarian honorary IOC member Pál Schmitt accompanied Bach during the meeting.More than 400,000 tickets


Parsons looking for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games to break ticketing records

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

Tickets for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games are set to go on sale on October 9, the Organising Committee

Paris 2024 has implemented a charitable scheme for the Paralympic Games whereby for every order customers

which allows fans to see multiple sports on the same day.There will be two discovery passes for the Paris

2024 Paralympic Games which will allow fans to see multiple different sports on the same day ©Paris

2024There are two available - the Centre Paris and South Paris - both for €24 (£21/$25) that give access

to multiple venues within close proximity.The Centre Paris pass allows entry to wheelchair fencing and


With one year to go until Paris 2024 Paralympics, IPC President Parsons foresees "vital benchmark"

  • The Big Read

With one year to go until the start of the Paris 2024 Paralympics on August 28, Andrew Parsons, the International

"I think the challenge for the Paralympic Movement now is how we make sure that what will happen in Paris

2024 Paralympics when he met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris last month ©IPC"I think it gives

With the first Paralympic test events starting to be held in Paris, Parsons believes the preparations

ticket sales on October 9, so in the lead-up and after the launch we need to focus a lot on selling tickets

Russia is hoping its athletes are on track for a return to Paralympic competition at Paris 2024, but


Paris 2024 all-around spots on line at Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships

  • Gymnastics

Places at next year's Olympics in Paris will be up for grabs when Valencia stages the Rhythmic Gymnastics

staged at the Fiera Valencia in the Spanish city will determine the 14 nations that will compete at Paris

August 26).In the group all-around, Bulgaria, Israel and Spain have already secured one ticket each for Paris

gymnastics) August 21, 2023In the individual all-around, the best 14 gymnasts will earn their nations tickets

Valencia for the 40th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, since this event is a qualifier for the Paris


Hosts Netherlands claim fourth straight European wheelchair basketball crown

  • European Para Championships 2023

Reigning Paralympic champions The Netherlands thrilled the home crowd here with a 58-36 victory over Britain in the women’s wheelchair basketball final at the European Para Championships.

EPC2023 pic.twitter.com/rMsvg9bog3— European Para Championships (@EuroParaChamps) August 18, 2023More Paris

awarded in Para archery, with the women’s recurve open and women’s compound open finalists sealing tickets


Dutch and British women’s wheelchair basketball teams seal Paris 2024 places

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

secured their places in the women’s wheelchair basketball competition at next year’s Paralympics in Paris

player @bokramer_ after being qualifying for the final of the European Para Championships💪Get your tickets

Netherlands will now face Britain for a third successive European final.Britain also secured their ticket to Paris


Australian hockey teams seal Paris 2024 tickets after Oceania Cup wins

  • Hockey

hockey teams overcame New Zealand at the Oceania Cup to seal their places at next year’s Olympics in Paris

The two teams are the first to directly qualify for Paris 2024 after being crowned continental champions

at the ITM Hockey Centre in Whangārei.New Zealand will have a second chance to secure tickets to Paris

Australia's men's team maintained their grip on the Oceania Cup as they sealed their place to Paris 2024



Visitors to Paris warned of rising cost of accommodation during 2024 Olympics and Paralympics

  • Paris 2024

Visitors to Paris for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics have been warned to expect a significant increase

cases are more than six times the rate being charged for a room this week.It highlighted the three star Paris

at €720 (£620/$790) per night.A map on the Trivago comparison booking portal shows hotel prices in Paris

for one year from tonight ©Hotels.comAccor, a hotel partner of Paris 2024, is understood to have made

a third of its rooms available to the Paris 2024 Organising Committee on a block booking arrangement.The

five fold increase in room rates for July and August 2024.Many have been critical of the high price of tickets