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Chinese Olympic Committee signs MoU with IWGA

  • World Games

The International World Games Association and the Chinese Olympic Committee have officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote sports and disciplines that appear on the World Games programme.

This is the IWGA's third co-signed MoU of 2024, following agreements with France and Spain on 20 February


Draw for Paris 2024 Olympic Football Tournament

  • Paris 2024

The draw for the football competitions at the next Olympic Games took place on Wednesday 20 March 2024 at the Paris 2024 headquarters in Saint-Denis.

team from the African zone, looks daunting, as does Group C, which includes current world champion Spain


Police raid the Spanish Football Federation offices over corruption allegations

  • Football

The operation is part of a judicial investigation into contracts signed by former federation president Luis Rubiales to take the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia. The contracts were worth 40 million euros ($43.3 million) a year. Seven people have been arrested and five are under investigation.

former president Luis Rubiales between 2018 and 2023, some of them with the Kosmos company led by former Spain

The raids and arrests have spread to other parts of Spain.

Following the return of the next edition to Spain due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the next three tournaments


International World Games Association meeting at the Olympic House

  • News

Last week, the President of the International World Games Association (IWGA), José Perurena, and the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, met at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland.

resulted in the signing of several agreements, including three important NOC's from China, France and Spain


Basketball in Paris 2024: Dream Team to face Serbia

  • Paris 2024

The basketball groups for Paris 2024 have been announced, with gold medal favourites the United States paired with reigning world runners-up Serbia in a draw held in Switzerland, where France will meet world champions Germany.

finished third at the last World Cup, and the winners of the pre-Olympic tournaments in Greece and Spain

🔥 pic.twitter.com/0osYCk2oh2— FIBA (@FIBA) March 19, 2024In women's basketball, Spain and Puerto Rico

to the quarter-finals.Groups:MEN:Group A:-Australia-Canada-Winner of the Qualification Tournement in Spain

(Spain, Angola, Lebanon, Bahamas, Finland and Poland).

-Spain.-Serbia.-Puerto Rico.Group B:-France.-Australia.-Canada.-Nigeria.Group C:-United States.


Dani Alves released on bail

  • News

Former Brazilian football star Dani Alves, who was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for rape last month, has regained his freedom after requesting and being granted bail while his appeal is heard.

Former Brazil international Dani Alves, who is serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence in Spain for rape

euros and the surrender of his passports (Brazilian and Spanish) as a guarantee that he would remain in Spain

the bail, with the obligation to surrender his two passports - Spanish and Brazilian - not to leave Spain

It was not insignificant that Alves travelled to Spain, where he currently lives, and "voluntarily" turned



Football teams to find out their Paris 2024 opponents this Wednesday

  • Paris 2024

Brazil will be absent from the men's draw, while reigning world champions Spain will be making their

Argentina, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, France, New Zealand, the USA, Spain, Israel, Ukraine, Egypt

, Mali and Morocco have already qualified for Paris'24.Spain if favourite to win the women's gold medal

Barcelona '92 champions Spain have 11, while the Dominican Republic and Ukraine will be making their

Argentina and Spain could be two of the teams nobody wants to face, but anything can happen in the Olympic

France, the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, Germany, Australia and Japan


Handball line-ups for Paris confirmed

  • Paris 2024

Over the weekend, the remaining men's handball teams for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were finalised in three different countries, leaving a total of six teams to complete the 12 that will compete for gold from 25 July.

 In the Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament #1 in Granollers, Spain, the hosts and Slovenia were

nbsp;That's all for the Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments ✅ An exciting #RoadtoParis2024 through Spain

🇪🇸🎶Brazil fought well and there was suspense...but Spain prevailed in the end ✊ The hosts finish at




Paris 2024: Olympic basketball tournament set for Tuesday

  • Paris 2024

The draw for the men's and women's Paris 2024 Olympic basketball tournaments will take place on 19 March at 19:00 CET at the the Patrick Baumann House of Basketbal in Mies, Switzerland.

place between 2 and 7 July in Piraeus (Greece), Riga (Latvia), San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Valencia (Spain

FIBAPot 1: USA, OQT Spain winners and GermanyPot 2: Serbia, Australia and the winner of the OQT LatviaPot

FIBAPot 1: USA, China and AustraliaPot 2: Spain, Canada and BelgiumPot 3: France, Japan and SerbiaPot


Egypt close to record 100 gold medals at Accra 2023

  • Ghana 2023

The 13th edition of the African Games will end next Sunday, 23 March, with an absolute domination by Egyptian athletes, who top the medals table with 76 gold medals.

The two-time bronze medallist at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain, and 200m freestyle


Quiles vs. Ibáñez to headline the IBA Champions' Night in Madrid

  • Boxing

The event will take place on 4 May at the Madrid Arena. The fight will be for the IBA European Championship title in the -57kg category. The Spanish boxer and the Bulgarian representative have both qualified for Paris 2024.

On 4May the IBA Champions' Night will take place in Madrid, Spain.

the main event of the 92kg category, IBA World Championships bronze medallist Enmanuel Reyes Pla of Spain

IBA World Championship bronze medallist Martín Molina of Spain takes on Bilal Bennama of France, also

Federation, Felipe Martínez, added: "It is not easy to organise an event like this, although in recent years Spain


Spanish government to equalise Olympic and Paralympic medal payments

  • Paris 2024

was a €24,000 difference between the prize money awarded to Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists in Spain

Spain will match the amount of money earned by Olympic and Paralympic athletes per medal won.

Also, for the first time, Olympic and Paralympic athletes from Spain will receive the same prize for

We believe they deserve it; we have a great level of sport in Spain and it is only fair as individuals