The French Government has ordered a laser weapon defence system to protect the Paris 2024 Olympics against flying drones.

2024 have been heightened since the chaotic scenes at the UEFA Champions League final at the Stade de France

Wales' Geraint Thomas and Australia's Rohan Dennis are expected to do battle for men's time trial gold tomorrow, when road cycling begins at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games here, while Australia's Grace Brown is the standout name in the women's line-up.

at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow eight years ago.He missed Gold Coast 2018, but won the Tour de France

trial at Tokyo 2020.Thomas arrives in Birmingham on the back of a third-place finish at the Tour de France

seconds, and placed fifth at the World Championships in 2020.The 30-year-old finished 20th on the Tour de France

Golf's final major of 2022 begins tomorrow at Muirfield, with the famed Scottish course staging the Women's Open for the first time.

field, with two tournament wins in the last two months, including victory at the Evian Championship in France

Letsile Tebogo served further notice of his status as the coming man in world sprinting as he lowered his world under-20 record to 9.91sec - easing down - at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Cali.

world under-20 champion successfully defended his title in the men’s long jump, where Erwan Konate of France

Sport de L'Expertise et de la Performance (INSEP) which is set to benefit athletes from Australia and France

The International World Games Association (IWGA) has signed four Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with National Federations to create mutual cooperation in developing the event.

organisations and National Olympic Committees too, including representatives from China, South Korea, France

Spaniard David Valero and Switzerland's Alessandra Keller were victorious in the Olympic discipline at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Cup in Showshoe.

— UCI MTB (@UCI_MTB) July 31, 2022Swiss rider Camille Balanche beat world champion Myriam Nicole of France

The United States' Felicia Stancil and Simon Marquart of Switzerland have clinched gold medals at the International Cycling Union (UCI) BMX Racing World Championships in Nantes.

Stancil was neck and neck with Marquart's compatriot Zoe Claessens in the elite women's race in France

I won my second World Championship when I was 10 years old in France so this place is already special

Two-time Olympic medallist Annemiek van Vleuten was crowned inaugural winner of the Tour de France Femmes

#TDFF #WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com/4JrWVzqqZr— Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) plans to sanction its first-ever blind baseball event later this year.

inaugural WBSC Blind Baseball International Cup on August 20 and 21.The Netherlands, Germany, Britain, France

A request to move the International Boxing Association (IBA) Extraordinary Congress from Yerevan has been turned down after a date for the event was set and registration opened.

ImagesAmong the reasons the group of countries, who also included the United States, Australia, Switzerland, France

Italy added four more gold medals to its tally on the final day of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) here in Banská Bystrica as it topped the overall standings.

21, 25-23 to clinch a third consecutive gold in the event.Other team sport finals also took place as France

Annemiek van Vleuten dominated the queen stage to sensationally take charge of the Tour de France Femmes

#TDFF #WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com/NUpuQZfhO2— Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes

Germany’s Ricarda Funk delivered women’s K1 success in front of International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and a partisan home crowd at the International Canoe Federation Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg.

take top spot, finishing 0.71 ahead of Italy’s Giovanni De Gennaro.Defending champion Boris Neveu of France

Elena Micheli and Sarolta Simon topped the women’s semi-finals at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Championships in Alexandria, Egypt.

, scoring 239 points and registering 22 wins.Second place in semi-final A went to Elodie Clouvel of France