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Festival organisers aiming to avoid cancellations during Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Festival organisers have vowed to ensure events take place alongside the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics following concerns that they may have to be cancelled.

That's enough: culture is still the adjustment variable in France in the face of a national situation

Among the events concerned is Les Suds - a music festival staged in southern France in July every year.Stéphane


Total of 15 UCI World Championships open for bidding at 2023 Congress in Glasgow

  • Cycling

A total of 15 World Championships in the International Cycling Union (UCI) calendar up to and including the 2028 Road World Championships are open for bidding at the UCI Congress in August next year.

respectively, Switzerland, based in Zurich, Rwanda, based in Kigali, Canada, based in Montreal, and France


Hendrickx leads women’s event after winning short programme at Grand Prix de France

  • Figure Skating

after winning the short programme on the opening day of the International Skating Union’s Grand Prix de France

silver medallist Kazuki Tomono of Japan with a season’s best of 89.46 points, with Adam Siao Him Fa of France

double Grand Prix bronze medallists scoring 82.38, while Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud of France



Four Olympic weightlifting champions among contenders for IWF Athletes' Commission

  • Weightlifting

Four Olympic champions, including three who won in Tokyo last year, are among the 16 candidates declared eligible to stand for election to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes' Commission next month.

who competes as Fares Elbakh from Qatar, from Europe, Yasmin Zammit Stevens of Malta, Anais Michel of France


Yee looks to overtake absent Wilde at World Triathlon Championship Series in Bermuda

  • Triathlon

Britain's Alex Yee is looking to take advantage of a missing Hayden Wilde at the next World Triathlon Championship Series leg in Bermuda, as he aims for top spot in the standings, heading into the Finals in the United Arab Emirates.

looking to win a medal for the first time in Bermuda.Championship Series veteran Vincent Luis from France



Girouille named coach of France's men's recurve team for Paris 2024

  • Archery

Two-time Olympian Romain Girouille has been appointed as France's new coach of their men's recurve team for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Girouille represented France at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 before turning to coaching after finishing

Only South Korea and the United States have won more archery medals than France at the Olympic Games.France


FIFA urges teams to "focus on football" at World Cup amid criticism of Qatar

  • Football

FIFA has pleaded with teams that are set to participate at the World Cup in Qatar to "now focus on the football" and not allow the sport to be "dragged into every ideological or political battle that exists".

Cup, claiming the tournament has "cost thousands of lives".The captains of Belgium, Denmark, England, France





Donnelly reunites with Thobois as Paris 2024 executive director of Games operations

  • Paris 2024

Édouard Donnelly has been appointed as the executive director of Games operations at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Organising Committee.

director general Étienne Thobois when the latter was managing director of the Organising Committee for the France

London.More recently, Donnelly was the managing director for the Men's Handball World Championship held in France


French Culture Minister admits some festivals may have to be cancelled due to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

French Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak has said solutions on the holding of festivals during the period of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be determined on a "case-by-case basis", but conceded that some may have to be cancelled if no outcome is found.

Festivals across France could be affected during the Paris 2024 Games ©Getty ImagesInterior Minister


French police start operations to achieve "zero crime" at Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

French police are now carrying out "one operation per day and per department" to achieve a "zero-delinquency plan" by the time of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

Speaking on France Radio as guest of the 8:30 am franceinfo show, Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez -