Michel Platini, the French midfield maestro turned football administrator, once told me it would annoy him if one day football fans, when asked how their club had got on, replied by quoting the share price instead of the result of their last match.

football body UEFA revealed that players in the Big Five leagues in England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France

Romario Henry and Ali Sesay have been sentenced to prison for a combined total of 27 years after being found guilty of robbing British cycling legend Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta at knifepoint at their family home last November.

world champion.The 37-year-old recently joined the Astana Qazaqstan team, and needs one more Tour de France

Denmark's capital Copenhagen has been awarded the 2025 edition of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3x3 Europe Cup.

Austrian city of Graz held last year's event.Serbia won their fourth consecutive men's title in Graz, and France

It's entirely fitting that the family of the late Jimmy Greaves should have been so warm and generous about Harry Kane breaking his all-time Tottenham Hotspur scoring record yesterday - for Greaves was a warm and generous man.

fact that he was unable to convert a second penalty in the recent FIFA World Cup quarter-final against France

and West Ham.While Kane, characteristically, took full responsibility for his missed penalty in the France

In the third group match against France, he was involved in a relatively meaningless midfield challenge

Paris 2024 have signed up the CMA CGM Group, the world's third largest container shipping company, as its official partner in logistics solutions for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been announced.

CGM will also operate road and river transport and logistics services at Paris 2024 in metropolitan France

Switzerland recorded a big upset in Davis Cup qualifying, stunning fourth seeds Germany in a five-match thriller in Trier to clinch one of the 12 Finals berths.

Davis Cup Finals with a 7-6, 6-2 victory against former US Open champion Dominic Thiem.Second seeds France

Mathieu van der Poel of The Netherlands joined a special group of riders by winning his fifth International Cycling Union (UCI) Cyclo-cross World Championships men's elite title.

compatriot Eli Iserbyt bagging bronze 12sec later.Only Albert Zwiefel of Switzerland, André Dufraisse of France

In the men's junior race, Léo Bisiaux of France took the gold medal in Hoogerheide in 43:48.Dutch and

Hosts France claimed two more victories on day two of the International Judo Federation (IJF) Judo Grand

took down German Timo Cavelius; and they were joined on the podium by Francois Gauthier Drapeau of France

Mikaela Shiffrin and Marco Odermatt will be the ones to watch in a unique 47th edition of the Alpine Ski World Championships which start tomorrow (February 6) in the French Alps and continue until February 19.

world super-G and giant slalom titles at the FIS Meribel Courchevel Alpine Ski World Championships in France

second-most-successful active skier in the competition behind Shiffrin with a total of eight medals.In France

title.Norway's 22-year-old rising star Lucas Braathen will be seeking his first senior world medal in France

Fifteen-year-old Brazilian Rayssa Leal added to her Olympic silver medal by claiming her first gold medal at the World Street Skateboarding Championships in Sharjah.

front of Gabriela Mazetto of Brazil, American Paige Heyn and Brazil's Pamela Rosa.Aurélien Giraud from France

International Judo Federation (IJF) President Marius Vizer has claimed that sport "can be a messenger for peace and unity" and cannot be divided by "war and politics", comments made at a time of growing debate over the inclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes.

permitted to compete at major events has been referenced by IOC President Thomas Bach.Vizer praised France

France has always been the guardian of the universal values of freedom, fraternity, equality and non-discrimination

 "That is why we always respect France and the French values."

Federations since the start of the war in Ukraine.Speaking at the IJF Grand Slam in Paris, Marius Vizer said France

Canada's Mikaël Kingsbury claimed his 78th International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Freestyle Ski World Cup with a men's dual moguls victory in Deer Valley, while France's Perrine Laffont topped the women's podium for the first time this season in the same discipline.

Thursday's singles event, but had not topped a podium.After seven podium finishes, Perrine Laffont of France

France's Merlin Surget earned a first International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Snowboard Cross World Cup victory of his career in Cortina d'Ampezzo, with Britain's Charlotte Bankes making it back-to-back wins on the women's circuit.

254 despite being knocked out in the round of 16, followed by beaten quarter-finalist Loan Bozzolo of France

Blandine Pont and Priscilla Gneto ensured it was a good first day for hosts France at the opening International

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Judo (@Judo) February 4, 2023Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Amandine Buchard picked up another medal for France

A few days ago, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a challenge to Thomas Bach when he invited the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President to visit the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut where fierce fighting has been going on for several months now. 

200,000 fled the country to seek political refuge abroad.Nor were there any sanctions against Britain and France