Typical villages, castles, stately mansions and a well-preserved environment awaited the Olympic Torch Relay in the Loiret. The 53rd stage highlighted the diversity of the region's landscapes, which range from forests to seemingly endless wheat fields.

The route crossed the agricultural plains of the Beauce, known as the 'granary of France'.

Fiona Tuvee, already an award-winning young reporter.The Olympic Torch Relay is one big party for all France

Two weeks before its presentation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Paris, the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the 2034 Games announced its delegation team and highlighted the vision it will present to all IOC members on July 24 to bring the Games back to Utah.

delegation.The presentation of the SLC-UT 2034 bid to the IOC Session as a whole is scheduled for 11:00 (France

youngest ever scorer in a men's European Championship, as he helped Spain come from behind to beat France

France took the lead within the first 10 minutes as Randal Kolo Muani headed in a cross from Kylian Mbappe

Lamine Yamal become the youngest ever scorer in a men's European Championship against France.

step away from glory.”At just 15 years old, he scored a spectacular curling long-range goal against France

The Jamaican sprint star Shericka Jackson finished the 200 metres in Szakesfehervar, Hungary, just 65km from Budapest, where she stunned the athletics world by winning the World Championships in a time of 21.41, very close to the 'Flo Jo' historic world record (21.34).

concern just three weeks and three days before the start of the athletics competition at the Stade de France

French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou are awaiting questioning by Argentine prosecutors after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman. They claim it was consensual.

Diplomatic Hotel in Mendoza, where the French players and staff were staying for the match.Hugo Auradou of France

is tackled during a test match between Argentina Pumas and France at Estadio Malvinas Argentinas.

This period can be extended once for a further 24 hours.Oscar Jegou, Lenni Nouchi, Hugo Auradou of France

sing the national anthem prior to a test match between Los Pumas and France on 6 July 2024.

From being key fiigure in the marathon discipline to being expelled from the Olympic event: anti-doping rules have denied the Olympic stage, which every athlete dreams of, to French marathoner Mehdi Frere, who has been suspended for two years, according to his lawyer.

outcome is feasible," as Frere had already mentioned to French media in recent days.Mehdi Frere of France

Athletes at the Paris Olympics later this month will be tested for performance-enhancing drugs, but at a competition plotting to rival the Games, doping will be objective. 

 But researchers who have studied the effects of performance-enhancing drugs told Agence France-Presse

He will arrive at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as one of the young prospects with a chance of securing a spot on the podium in platform diving. The 23-year-old Australian, Cassiel Rousseau, with an outstanding track record, is ready to challenge Asian dominance in diving.

then, a Frenchman triumphed in Australia, and now an Australian, his grandson, could do the same in France

“In France, I have a chance to do something great and focus on that rather than just enjoying the experience

The reigning Olympic time trial champion Primoz Roglic won't be defending his title at Paris 2024 after opting out of the Slovenian national team, who will also be missing Urška Zigart, the women's national road race and time trial queen, as well as the girlfriend of clear favourite Tadej Pogačar.

Roglič, it was his own decision not to defend his title.Pogačar, the current leader of the Tour de France

Sunday’s elections leave an uncertain scenario just weeks before the opening ceremony in Paris, with lingering security concerns, union calls for strikes, social unrest and a surprising, late-game shift in the General Assembly, now leaning left yet still under threat from Marine Le Pen’s RN.

France voted to keep the far-right at bay, at least for now.

traffic conditions," Paul Dietschy, a history and sports professor at the Université of Franche-Comte in France

France and most of Europe woke up to widespread relief after the election results came in, but the week

Interrogé sur la situation politique en France, le capitaine des Bleus Kylian Mbappé a déploré les résultats

In the final countdown to the Games, France struggles to stay upward while left and right political forces

With 50 days to go until the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced on Tuesday, 9 July, the eight athletes and one support runner who will compete as part of the largest ever Refugee Paralympic Team.  The Paralympic Opening Ceremonywill take place on the Champs-Elysees and Place de la Concorde in Paris on 28 August.

shines a spotlight on the transformational impact of sport.”The clock is ticking ⏳In 50 days' time, France

She now lives in Paris, France, and won the 2023 European Taekwondo Championships in the 47kg category

France rugby captain Antoine Dupont will chase Olympic gold later this month after being named on Monday

The Toulouse scrum-half, who led France at the Rugby World Cup on home soil last year, skipped this year's

points for a conversion, and three points for a drop goal or penalty.It will be held at the Stade de France

Kimia Yousofi says she will be representing "the stolen dreams and aspirations" of all Afghan women after being unveiled Tuesday as one of the nation's six-person team for the Paris Olympics. The 100m sprinter was Afghanistan's flag-bearer at the Tokyo Games three years ago, but fled her home country to neighbouring Iran to escape persecution when the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.

he told Agence France-Presse.'

AUSOlympicTeam) July 8, 2024Yusofi's Australian coach John Quinn will be the Afghanistan team's head coach in France

Internationally renowned choreographer Alexander Ekman has been selected as Stage and Choreography Director of the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 that will see thousands of Para athletes from 180 international delegations parade down the legendary Avenue des Champs-Elysées to the Place de la Concorde on 28 August. Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the ceremonies, has brought in the Swedish choreographer to shake up the traditions of the event and Ekman has chosen to place dance at the heart of the show.

 #Paris2024 | J-50 avant la cérémonie d'ouverture des premiers #JeuxParalympiques organisés en France

Squad without the big names. Thierry Henry, who will serve as France’s coach at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, revealed the final list of players on Monday who will defend the French national football team’s jersey. This squad does not include any prestigious figures from the current senior team.