For the first time in major international competition, half the officials named by World Triathlon and Europe Triathlon for the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games will be female.

, Raquel Gonzalez and Francisco Manuel Soriano of Spain, Eero Raudsepp of Estonia, Apolline Poas of France

United States Ski and Snowboard has announced that Canadian women's Alpine team head coach Karin Hajro will be coaching the skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin next season.

Germain to win World Championship gold in the women's slalom in France, while Valerie Grenier also secured

International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev has claimed that this year's Women’s World Championships here will be the "fairest" and "most transparent" as it looks set to be staged in front of a team of International Olympic Committee (IOC) observers.

$2.4 million (£1.9 million/€2.2 million) for the event.World and Olympic champion Estelle Mossely of France

French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted that the Olympics in Paris will be "an exceptional event for the entire world" in a rallying cry on social media as Paris 2024 marked 500 days to the Opening Ceremony.

beautiful popular celebration and work on a lasting and ethical legacy," Oudéa-Castéra told radio station France

Laurence_Beau on her morning run along Wellington’s beautiful waterfront. pic.twitter.com/aWV7HSx17Y— France

FIFA has announced that the 2026 World Cup will have a record 104 matches, upgrading from the traditional 64 games.

Last year's World Cup in Qatar featured 64 games, with Argentina lifting the trophy after defeating France

Pigalle Paris fashion label founder Stéphane Ashpool has been named artistic director of the French Olympic and Paralympic teams at Paris 2024 and will design the athlete uniforms.

manufacturers.Le Coq Sportif was chosen for its ability to produce the majority of the uniforms in France

I think France represents this well."

This is a column about power and how social media has - and has not - disrupted the circles in which it resides.

enviable 29.9 million Twitter followers, even a national leader as prominent as Emmanuel Macron of France

Steel company ArcelorMittal is set to manufacture the Olympic and Paralympic Torches for Paris 2024 in a newly-announced partnership.

The Olympic Torches are set to bring the traditional Flame from Olympia to Paris after going around France

The Torches will travel thousands of kilometres during the Torch Relay, close to the people of France

Organisers of the 2025 International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games in Turin are to stage an exhibition of snow volleyball this weekend in Bardonecchia as the first step towards including the sport on the Games programme in two years' time.

Smith resort in Bardonecchia.The men's tournament is set to feature teams from Poland, Czech Republic, France

Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) has devised a €200 million (£176 million/$214 million) plan to transport

Brazil's Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes and Nigeria's Goodness Nwachukwu set world records at the latest World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Marrakech, where hosts Morocco led the way with 16 gold medals.

@Paralympics pic.twitter.com/fUWbDFNxrO— #ParaAthletics (@ParaAthletics) March 12, 2023Tunisia and France

Germany dominated the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Youth Junior World Championships in Shchuchinsk in Kazakhstan, with Selina Grotian earning a quadruple gold medal haul.

relay.Germany's team of Puff, Grotian, Benjamin Menz and Hans Köllner also triumphed in 1:06:19.4 to beat France

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stated it hopes that the British Government "will respect the autonomy of sport" after its Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Lucy Frazer wrote to sponsors urging them to back a ban on Russia and Belarus.

an international summit that brought together more than 35 nations, including upcoming Olympic host France

FIFA President Gianni Infantino was spied on by last year's men's World Cup host country Qatar during a meeting with former Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber, according to a report vigorously denied by the Gulf nation.

evidently clear that the multiple smear campaigns against Qatar in Europe, revealed by media reports in France

More than 100 participants at the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) Athletes’ Forum in Algiers have expressed support for the continental body's endorsement of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) stance on Russia and Belarus.

2024 if Russian and Belarusian athletes are present.A group of 35 nations, including Paris 2024 hosts France