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French Handisport Federation faces financial crisis in build-up to Paris 2024 Paralympics

  • Paris 2024

A little over a year and a half before the Paris 2024 Paralympics the French Handisport Federation (FFH) - which oversees a range of disabled sports in the country - is said to be in a "worrying financial situation" and facing a crisis.

Paris 2024 Games," the Court report reads.The FFH is one of three bodies responsible for Para-sport in France



Work on key Paris 2024 RER station Saint-Michel Notre-Dame overruns by four months

  • Paris 2024

Work on the RER C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame station, which will be a key transport hub during the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics will not be completed until April next year - four months later than scheduled.

again until April 17 2023.The €32 million (£27.5 million/$33.75 million) project, financed by Île-de-France



Philip Barker: Moroccan heroics symbolic of African sporting struggle

  • Inside the Blogs

It is perhaps appropriate that Morocco should be the standard bearers for Africa in the FIFA World Cup quarterfinals against Portugal on Saturday.

 Just Fontaine scored 13 goals, still a record, for France in 1958 but he had been born in the Moroccan

Moroccan born Just Fontaine, centre, scored 13 goals for France in the 1958 World Cup ©Getty ImagesFinally


Four nations qualify for World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship

  • Curling

Austria, The Netherlands, Spain and Turkey have clinched the final four places at next year's World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

placed second behind Finland in Group C, with The Netherlands second to New Zealand in Group B.China and France

their place at the World Championships, with Spain joining them courtesy of 9-2 and 9-7 wins against France

WMDCC2023 | #Curling pic.twitter.com/awnXOcv2HX— World Curling (@worldcurling) December 7, 2022China and France


Herrmann-Wick earns IBU World Cup sprint victory in Hochfilzen

  • Biathlon

Double Beijing 2022 medallist Denise Herrmann-Wick skied away from the field to secure a first win of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup season in Hochfilzen.

7.1sec.Czech Markéta Davidová was second, 18.1sec back with one penalty, and the clean-shooting Julia Simon of France


GSW Paris teams up with Viva Technology for "Future of Sport" forum a year before Olympics

  • Paris 2024

The fourth edition of Global Sports Week (GSW) Paris, the annual forum that promotes fresh ways of thinking about sport, will be suitably innovative next year as it teams up with a new partner - Viva Technology - in a new format to present four days of discussion on the "Future of Sport".

As France prepares to host the world's biggest sporting events and at a time when the sector is undergoing


Hopman Cup, ITF's mixed team event, to return in Nice after three-year gap

  • Tennis

The Hopman Cup, the International Tennis Federation's (ITF) mixed team competition, will return after a three-year absence in 2023 with Nice as host.

the 2023 and 2024 editions, with the competition expanding to eight teams from 2025 onwards.As hosts, France

After the Grand Départ of the Tour de France in 2020, the Top 14 semi-finals in 2022, the Hopman Cup

will precede the Rugby World Cup by a few weeks, and then the arrival of the Tour de France in July 2024


Ministry of Labour details 87 work accidents on Paris 2024 sites

  • Paris 2024

A total of 87 work accidents have been logged since the start of construction sites linked to the Paris 2024 Games - 11 of them serious, none fatal, according to Minister of Labour figures.

fatal work accidents", Le Monde reports.Gaëtan Rudant, director of the labour inspectorate in Ile-de-France



Paralympic snowboard champions face day in court over classification debate

  • Alpine Skiing News

Beijing 2022 Paralympic snowboarding champions Brenna Huckaby and Cécile Hernandez are set to learn whether they will be allowed to keep their gold medals at legal proceedings in Cologne which begin on Thursday (December 8).

#AllezLesBleus pic.twitter.com/r92DP8VCEL— Equipe France (@EquipeFRA) March 7, 2022Their application


David Owen: King Kylian of Qatar may also play his part at Paris 2024

  • Inside the Blogs

I never thought I would live to see another footballer dominate a men’s World Cup as comprehensively as Diego Maradona dominated the 1986 competition.

Yet if Kylian Mbappé can inspire France to a second-consecutive triumph in world governing body FIFA’

pitch full of marathon-runners.I suppose you could argue that a more appropriate comparison, should France

World Cup-winner under Deschamps’s captaincy on home soil in 1998.After flooring Brazil in the Stade de France

best at World Cups for the really big games.In another match against Brazil in 2006, once again won by France

the French squad would almost certainly make them red-hot favourites similarly to win gold in 2024.France


French Ministry of Sports seeking to increase volunteer capacity before Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

The French Ministry of Sports is to stage a series of meetings as it looks to increase interest in volunteering prior to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Sports clubs in France are said to still be recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and have

3,000 female volunteers registered by 2028.Sport is the second most popular area for volunteering in France

Ministry of Sports.Currently 3.5 million volunteers are involved with 360,000 sporting associations in France


Cuba allows women to box officially for first time in history

  • Boxing

Cuba is set to allow women to box officially after decades of restrictions, but it was not confirmed if it would be at a professional level as was sanctioned for male athletes earlier this year.

authorisation of women's boxing in our country," Ariel Saínz, vice-president of INDER, told Agence France-Presse.He