Neutral athletes competing under the International Sambo Federation (FIAS) flag and anthem finished top of the medals table at the World Sambo Championships, which ended today in Bishkek.

well as five silver and 10 bronze, overall.Most of these came from Russian sambists, with Belarus and France

Paralympic gold medallists Valentin Baus of Germany and Maryna Lytovchenko of Ukraine added to their successes with title triumphs at the World Para Table Tennis Championships in Spain.

women's class 11 final, youth outmatched experience as Tokyo 2020 runner-up and 18-year-old Léa Ferney of France

Mascots for the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics have been revealed here today and are based on the enduring idea of liberty, taking the form of Phrygian caps, the headwear that has symbolised freedom for the French for centuries.

Paralympics, with their reference to the French Revolution, they come to make a new revolution with people in France

otherwise have been used and it thus came to be identified as a symbol of Republican Government.In France

Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People, which celebrates the French Revolution of 1830.In France

It is also present in all the institutions here in France, in the schools and the city halls."

freedom, it is also the symbol of our Republic, of the way of living together that we share here in France

Lee Jang-ho of South Korea had a day to remember at the World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Abu Dhabi as he won his first two gold medals and helped set a world record.

of the medal standings with five gold medals - three individual and two team - followed by Italy and France

Keneth Kiprop Renju, who won the national 10,000m title in April, has become the latest Kenyan middle distance runner to be banned for doping.

in competitions between March and May this year.The first test occurred at the 10km de Lille race in France

Fernando Aguerre has been unanimously re-elected as President of the International Surfing Association (ISA) a year after seeing the sport make its Olympic debut in Tokyo.

Aguerre, Barbara Kendall of New Zealand was re-elected as an ISA vice-president and Jean-Luc Arassus of France

Athletes including reigning Olympic champions Joe Choong and Kate French have written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the eve of the pivotal International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Congress calling on it to help create a commission to examine necessary reforms in the sport.

Hungary.Ten Czech athletes, 10 Hungarian athletes and 12 Ukrainians are among the signatories.Athletes from France

A list has been announced of nominations to become additional members of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Teqball (FITEQ).

athletes - can each have one representative.That will mean a vote do determine whether Jawad El Hajri of France

Promoters of "flying taxis" in the Paris area plan to showcase their service by carrying their first passengers during the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

electrically-powered, unmanned Volocopter vehicles are forecast to be operating from five bases in the Île-de-France

Paris, that the airport manager Groupe ADP, the RATP state-owned public transport operator, the Île-de-France

urban transport environments, are said to be four times less noisy than helicopters.President of Île-de-France

Maria Amyulina Guedez became the first-ever member of the Refugee Sambo Team to claim a gold medal at the World Championships, winning the women's under-50 kilograms title here in Bishkek.

Now living in France but originally from Venezuela, Guedez got the winning point in a dramatic end to

Human Rights Watch has called on the Qatari Government to condemn 2022 FIFA World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman's comments that homosexuality is "damage in the mind".

Getty ImagesHe represented Qatar at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games where he scored a brace against France

FIFA has banned Denmark from wearing a training shirt with a message criticising Qatar’s human rights record as the build-up to the FIFA World Cup continues.

difference," Jensen added.Denmark captain Simon Kjaer is set to join the captains of England, Wales, France

Milica Mandić already had a place in Olympic history as the first athlete from independent Serbia to win a gold medal in any sport - and now she has an even higher place as a double champion.

Nine years after beating Anne-Caroline Graffe of France 5-4 to win over-67 kilograms gold at the London

Grand Prix, Mandić had a moment to catch up with her competitor for gold at London 2012, Graffe of France

The French Minister for Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, has promised she will visit Qatar at the 2022 FIFA World Cup if the national team makes the quarter-finals of the tournament.

Oudéa-Castéra made it clear it was her job to represent France at such competitions, but echoed the words

The role of a Minister of Sports is to be alongside the team," she said to France Info."

said he would not "gag the players", adding "each individual will have their freedom of expression".France

Individual events concluded on the second day of action at the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Judo World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.

J1 over +90kg final ©IJFThe men’s J2 under-90kg category was won by top seed Helios Latchoumanaya of France