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Hosts Turkey win maiden Amputee Football World Cup

  • Paralympics

Hosts Turkey won the Amputee Football World Cup for the first time with a 4-1 victory over defending champions Angola in Istanbul.

he said.Turkey had progressed in second place through Group A after opening with a 3-1 win against France


Paris 2024 velodrome ready to host UCI Track Cycling World Championships

  • Cycling

The National Velodrome set to be used at the Paris 2024 Olympics is ready to host the International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Championships, with the five-day competition set to begin tomorrow.

Lavreysen collected three golds for The Netherlands at last year's Championships, which were also held in France

sprint, team sprint and keirin titles.Men's individual sprint European champion Sébastien Vigier of France

National Velodrome has previously held the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2015, when hosts France


Transport Minister admits Paris "behind" on transport accessibility

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

French Minister of Transport Clément Beaune has admitted that "we are behind on our accessibility objectives in transport" with less than two years until the start of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. 

stations in particular," Beaune said during Paris' celebrations of Paralympic Day, as reported by Agence France-Presse


David Owen: Storming a "cross-Channel Bastille" - Baron de Coubertin at Henley

  • Inside the Blogs

Every Olympic scholar knows that Pierre de Coubertin sculpted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) partly with the Steward-based system deployed by the venerable Henley Royal Regatta in mind.

prizes were presented, where an official "expressed to Baron de Coubertin… and the other visitors from France


International Testing Agency enters MoU with French OCLAESP with view to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

The International Testing Agency (ITA) extended its partnership with France's Central Office for the Fight against Environmental and Public Health Damage (OCLAESP), placing a key focus on the Paris 2024 Olympics.

information exchange to assist with the dismantling of potential doping or trafficking networks in France


Atcher sacked as 2023 Rugby World Cup chief executive

  • Rugby Sevens

Claude Atcher has been dismissed as chief executive of the France 2023 Rugby World Cup in the wake of

corroborated much of what L'Équipe had reported in accusing Atcher of "management by terror".The France

expected on December 13.The Rugby World Cup is one of a number of major events set to take place in France



Albers and Harmanpreet seal FIH Player of the Year awards

  • Hockey

The Netherlands' Felice Albers and India's Harmanpreet Singh have been named the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Player of the Year for the 2021-2022 season in the women's and men's competitions respectively.

Delmee and Michel van den Heuvel of The Netherlands, Garreth Ewing of South Africa and Frédéric Soyez of France


Oudéa-Castéra says "all the ingredients are there" for Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony

  • Paris 2024

French Minister of Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has insisted that "all the ingredients are there" to ensure that the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony can take place along the River Seine as planned.

and the widely condemned treatment of supporters at the UEFA Champions League final at the Stade de France


Arab singers join forces for fourth Qatar 2022 World Cup single

  • World Cup

Four Arab singers have teamed up to produce the fourth single, Light The Sky, from the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup official soundtrack.

each of the six female officials selected for the competition make an appearance.Stéphanie Frappart of France




Japan seek to fight off challengers at World Wheelchair Rugby Championship

  • Wheelchair Rugby News

Japan are poised to begin the defence of their World Wheelchair Rugby Championship title in Vejle in Denmark.

will have hopes of repeating or even furthering their success.Group A consists of Britain, the US, France

Still, in recent years European teams such as Great Britain, France, and Denmark have been able to match


ITTF performance director thrilled with scholars' displays at World Team Table Tennis Championships

  • Table Tennis

Polona Cehovin, the director of high performance and development at the International Table Tennis Federation, is hoping that the progress scholarship-holders have displayed at the World Team Table Tennis Championships is just the beginning.

Felix Lebrun of France, who is supported by the ITTF With the Future in Mind programme, won five of the

India's Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, a back-to-back Commonwealth Games team champion, 11-4, 11-2, 11-6 to help France

also bettered Germany's European singles gold medallist Dang Qiu 12-10, 11-8, 6-11, 11-9, although France


IRL chair Grant embraces "wonderful opportunity" of Rugby League World Cup in England - and keeps his Olympic flame burning

  • The Big Read

Starting next Saturday (October 15), some of England's traditional bastions of the 13-man rugby code will be playing host to the 2021 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC2021) - postponed due to COVID 19 restrictions but, as with Tokyo 2020, being marketed under its original title.

the second-oldest sporting World Cup event behind the FIFA World Cup since its first incarnation in France

Following this year’s announcement that France will host the 2025 Rugby League World Cup, Troy Grant,

right, the French Consul-General in Sydney, Anne Boillon and the World Cup trophy ©IRLThe choice of France

For the first time, the 2025 World Cup in France will be preceded by a full qualifying competition for

"It is already in evidence in the planning for France 2025 and will be part of all future Rugby League