Canadian Valérie Grenier has won her first International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup race, beating the favourites to the top of the women's giant slalom podium in Kranjska Gora.

Switzerland, completed the top five, far in front of the rest of the field.Coralle Frasse Sombet of France

Over 100 French embassies around the world have joined the Terre de Jeux 2024 programme, a label which acknowledges an organisation or local authorities' support of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Committees.Some of these participated in Olympic Day celebrations in their respective host countries, promoting France

Twin sisters Lotta and Tiril Udnes Weng had a family day to remember, finishing first and second in the women's sprint in Val di Fiemme - the final Tour de Ski leg.

Sweden's Calle Halfvarsson by 0.26sec.Simone Mocellini from Italy took bronze, with Lucas Chanavat of France

transport, with several services affected by renovations and constructions of rail lines across Ile-de-France

Seventy per cent of the national-owned SNCF passenger traffic comes from Ile-de-France, which is expected

Julyana Al-Sadeq has become the first Jordanian and Arab female to top the World Taekwondo rankings.

kilograms category after climbing four places and dethroning world bronze medallist Magda Wiet-Hénin of France

Elvira Öberg took the first International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup event of 2023 as the Swedish athlete won the women’s 7.5 kilometres sprint title in Pokljuka, Slovenia.

 "I had the opportunity in the sprint in France but missed the last shot.

Russian track and field athletes, banned by World Athletics in November 2015 following the revelations of a concerted home doping regime, account for almost a quarter of the names on the latest overall list of offenders issued by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).

respectively.Kazakhstan are on nine cases, with Romania on eight, Iraq and Nigeria on seven, and Iran and France

A joint bid for the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games involving Switzerland, France and Italy

Officials in Haute-Savoie, a region in the Alps of eastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy

The flame is set to burn for the International University Sports Federation (FISU) Winter World University Games in Lake Placid next week, half a century after the Winter Olympics were first held there.

, which cost $150,000 (£125,000/€141,000), but lost out in the first round of voting as Grenoble in France

Stephane Kandler and Bruno Dubois are set to lead a French side in the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona in 2024.

France is such a prominent sailing nation but despite this, it is not a small undertaking to get an America's

Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) has relaunched a call to find companies to run transport operations at

unsuccessful, as happens in other public markets in the current situation," an IDFM spokesperson told Agence France-Presse

conditions will be at the time of the Olympic Games as long as Valérie Pécresse [President of the Ile-de-France

A joint bid between Valais in Switzerland and Chamonix in France and resorts in northern Italy could

could also prohibit against another bid involving Italy.Chamonix, a resort area near the junction of France

, Switzerland and Italy, hosted the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924.Since then, France have hosted

France's Minister of Culture Rima Abdul-Malak has assured most festivals will be able to go ahead during and before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris despite security concerns, but stressed solutions were still to be found for Lollapalooza and Rock en Seine.

difficult.Another appointment between festival representatives - such as Prodiss, Current Music Union and  France

Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen went to the top of the men's slalom standings in this season's International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup, with a convincing win at the latest stage at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

seconds to home favourite Linus Straßer, clocking a time of 52.84sec.Olympic champion Clément Noël from France

Novak Djokovic has called for former world number one Daniil Medvedev, as well as players from Russia and Belarus, to be allowed back at Wimbledon this year.

and I want to show my best tennis," Medvedev said.Meanwhile, Djokovic defeated Constant Lestienne of France