French rider Arnaud Démare triumphed in a sprint finish on the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia in Messina, where Vincenzo Nibali announced that he will retire at the end of the season.

Giro twice - in 2013 and 2016 - following on from his Vuelta a España success in 2010.Arnaud Démare of France

won the stage five at the Giro d'Italia ©Getty ImagesHis Tour de France triumph came in 2014.Nibali

Participants at the 2024 Olympics will be urged to not allow any food to go to waste after thousands of meals were thrown away during last year’s Games in Tokyo, it was revealed here today. 

They will be in France so we want them to have a fantastic culinary experience – this has to be memorable

A collaboration agreement has been signed by the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) and the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) in a bid to strengthen relations between the two organisations before the 2024 Olympics here.

collaboration aims to promote Olympic values, protect clean and ethical sport and develop sport in both France

Between the announcement of Bruny and this visit to France, there is a real sense of excitement in the

Stade Vélodrome is set to host rugby union's 2023-2024 Top 14 final, with usual venue the Stade de France

The 2024 final is set to be only the second not at the Stade de France, which holds more than 80,000

since the venue was opened in 1998.Barcelona's Camp Nou stepped in as host in 2016, with the Stade de France

and other major venues being used as France hosted the men's UEFA European Championship.The Stade de

France is due to be converted into an athletics stadium for Paris 2024, with rugby sevens matches also

and was awarded the 2024 Top 14 final by the National Rugby League Management Committee.The Stade de France

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed the city is capable of staging the "greenest Olympics ever" as he wages a campaign to make London "the sporting capital of the world".

three of the next four seasons.In the year with no games, 2025, it is anticipated that the Stade de France

Japan's Misaki Uchida topped women's qualifying on the first day of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup in Albena.

part progressed into the semi-finals.They included Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist Élodie Clouvel of France

It was a day of few upsets at the Thomas and Uber Cups in Bangkok, where heavyweights including Viktor Axelsen's Denmark and Kento Momota's Japan clinched their places in the quarter-finals of the men's team tournament.

made it two wins from two for Denmark in Group B as he set them on their way to a 5-0 victory against France

quarter-final berths.The 2018 winners Japan eased through in Group A, along with Indonesia.Japan cruised past France

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet claims the planned city-centre Olympic Games Opening Ceremony here will put athletes at the "centre of the stage", with them planned to travel in boats along the River Seine.

Sixty-one per cent of adults in France do not do this recommendations and 80 per cent of the youth is

The Olympiastadion in Berlin is set to stage the deciding match at football's 2024 European Championship, following a decision taken at today's UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Vienna.

1948, 1960 and 1972 Olympics, respectively - as well as Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu and Paris' Stade de France

Zwift, the title sponsor for the inaugural Tour de France Femmes, is aiming to "rewrite the playbook"

platform, believes the new women’s event can be a "catalyst for wider change in the sport".The Tour de France

the Champs-Elysées in the French capital on July 24, alongside the final stage of the men’s Tour de France

the race as a "pinnacle moment" in the sport as she believes the name and visibility of the Tour de France

The Tour de France accounts for around 70 per cent of cycling viewership each year and women have not

Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) May 6, 2022The men’s Tour de France has thrived for more than 100

For a lot of people, thinking about the Isle of Man means thinking about bikes.

the humble pedal cycle.Some of the world's best riders have been produced there, including Tour de France

omnium, and he is a world champion on both road and track.But it is his achievements at the Tour de France

Concerns over the future of Paralympic sport in Ukraine has been expressed following the invasion of the country by Russia. 

the National Sports Committee for the Disabled of Ukraine, Paralympic Committee (UPC), told Agence France-Presse

Former champion Simona Halep was among the winners on day one of the Italian Open in Rome, so too Olympic champion Belinda Bencic and her Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka.

Romania's Halep, who is also a former Grand Slam winner on this surface, beat Alizé Cornet from France

Turkish boxer Esra Özyol gave home fans reason to smile, winning the hosts' first bout on the opening day of competition at the International Boxing Association (IBA) Women's World Boxing Championships in Istanbul.

Kimura.Chinese Taipei's Lin Yu-ting recovered from a difficult round one to overturn Sthelyne Grosy of France

Extreme slalom is set to offer Olympic qualification opportunities for the first time under the process for Paris 2024 released by the International Canoe Federation (ICF).

slalom qualification process, there are 40 quota places for men and 40 for women, with the host nation France