I've been off the grid over the last two weeks, so to speak, summoning the last vestiges of youth to spend two weeks backpacking around Europe.

a microcosm of society which replicates every part: good and bad.The Tour de France which closed in Paris

and other members of his team by spectators, a rider disqualified for punching a rival and a farmers' protest

Innocent Simiyu, who recently led Kenya to their highest ever HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series points tally, has been reinstated as the country's head coach just days after a sponsorship controversy saw him sacked.

responsibility for a decision by the players to conceal the branding of their shirt sponsor, during the Paris

In protest, expext a severely depleted squad and subsequent poor showing.

Anti-Olympic campaigners in Annecy have announced a rally to "celebrate" the French city's failed bid for the 2018 Winter Games.

France has since been awarded an Olympic Games as Paris will host the 2024 Summer edition.The CAO said

 Public protest has killed off many Olympic bids, including in Boston, Hamburg, Budapest and Innsbruck

Eighty years ago, they celebrated the 150th anniversary of arrival of settlers to establish modern day Australia. As part of the festivities, Sydney became the first Australian city to host the Commonwealth Games.

They resolved to "hereby make protest against the callous treatment of our people and ask for a new policy

which will raise our people to full citizen status and equality".The protest fell largely on deaf ears

report.The English swimmers were looked after by 41-year-old Miss Verrall Maude Newman, an Olympic diver at Paris

So Birmingham - a belatedly willing and patently capable bidder to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games - has finally had its wish. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has finally crossed all its T's, dotted all its I's and confirmed this English bidder as the official replacement for the original planned host, Durban.

Paris 2024 followed by Los Angeles 2028…The CGF was not having to look quite so far into the future-

Africa prompted 31 countries, largely from Africa and the Caribbean, to boycott the Edinburgh Games in protest

Claude Azéma has been re-elected President of the International Pétanque Federation (FIPJP) at their 57th International Congress in Antananarivo. 

be his last term in office.He will prioritise ensuring the sport is added to the programme for the Paris

2024 Olympic Games.Pétanque and boules are mounting a bid for inclusion at Paris 2024 ©FIPJP"I am disappointed

same number for the treasurer position.Eight unconfirmed African countries also boycotted the vote in "protest

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has adopted its first-ever human rights policy.

from hosting a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in 2011, after Britain and Australia joined forces to protest

from a coalition of leading rights, transparency and athletes' organisations, will take effect from Paris

It has become increasingly fashionable for sporting leaders to talk about their trade with a form of missionary zeal and sense of higher purpose.

continuing their war of words with United States President Donald Trump as they use their spotlight to protest

ability to bring people together and provide a sense of escapism.I was reminded of this during a visit to Paris

across cities in France to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron's labour reforms on the eve of Paris

challenge to Macron's Presidency since he was elected in May, thousands of French residents, including in Paris

, marched in protest at his controversial reforms.Macron was the highest-profile official to attend the

IOC) Extraordinary Session in Lausanne in July, where the double-award of the 2024 and 2028 Games to Paris

Session this week but then cancelled because the meeting provides nothing more than a rubber-stamping of Paris

What if? Two words which must be among the most used in the English language and yet are, ultimately, useless because we will never know. 

are going to get at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Lima on September 13 when Paris

Momentum" movement, a group of young professionals and students, used the Olympics as an opportunity to protest

 Paris, meanwhile, would still have travelled as the clear favourites, a position they have held

Emmanuel Macron was treated like a rock star only a few weeks ago when he led Paris' delegation to the

On the eve of the London 2012 Olympics, the Korea Herald assessed the prospects for a taekwondo team that, four years earlier in Beijing, had won gold in all four of the events it was entitled to enter.

was in, having been adopted as an official sport of the 2000 Sydney Games at the 103rd IOC Session in Paris

At the Rio Olympics we didn't have a single protest.

Affairs as they called for an investigation into the search of their national ice hockey team at the Paris

The Belarus national team were reportedly subject to a thorough search by police in Paris yesterday,

Affairs confirmed they had summoned Canesse to a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Kravchenko to protest

“During the meeting, the Deputy Foreign Minister, Oleg Kravchenko, expressed a strong protest of the

Championship by representatives of French law enforcement bodies on May 3, 2017 at the railway station Paris

received an apology from tournament organisers ©Getty ImagesThere is currently heightened security in Paris

It is just after five o’clock in the morning when the hordes of Angelenos arrive at the iconic Memorial Coliseum, dressed in all sorts of weird and wonderful outfits.

spirit and smiles – smiles which have been absent from the faces of bid officials from Los Angeles, Paris

Atlanta 1996.As my colleague Nick Butler pointed out in his piece, it had hardly been a good week for Paris

While Los Angeles and Paris staged dawn parties and slogan reveals, the Hungarian capital remained quiet

Paris 2024 used their launch event to implicitly criticise Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the

“The romantic appeal of Paris is so self-evident we could never protest that – we think it is true and

Four-time Olympic athletics champion Sir Mo Farah has fiercely criticised United States President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order limiting immigration as the sports world seeks to understand possible consequences.

including two Syrian athletes at Rio 2016.This also comes as Los Angeles bids against Budapest and Paris

targets refugees" and "there is no evidence that this approach will improve national security".Activits protest

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, he might just have in mind another Ceremony seven years in the future.

"Their powerful silent protest at the 1968 Games was controversial but it woke folks up and created greater

First the IOC would have to choose Los Angeles over Budapest and Paris, and Trump must win another four