French Sports Minister Roxana Mărăcineanu will travel here for 2022 Winter Olympics, although the date of her visit has not yet been announced.

the 46-year-old Mărăcineanu is expected to assume greater significance over the next few months as France

Egan Bernal has admitted he had 95 per cent chance of being paralysed following his training crash in his native Colombia last Monday (January 24).

with Ineos Grenadiers earlier this month, with the Colombian having targeted a return to the Tour de France

in July.The 25-year-old won the Tour de France in 2019 and was crowned Giro d’Italia champion for the

Asian champion Yoon Hyun-ji was one of three South Korean winners on the final day of the Portugal Grand, while Olympic bronze medallist Jorge Fonseca earned a second gold of the event for the host nation.

gold for South Korea in the women's over-78kg weight division in Almada, with Stessie Bastareaud of France

Sweden scored a penalty with the last action of the game to win the European Men's Handball Championship.

Olympic final, but this time it was Denmark who triumphed.The world champions saw off Olympic champions France

France made it back-to-back team women's sabre victories at the International Fencing Federation (FIE

France's Yannick Borel and Katrina Lehis of Estonia took épée victories at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Grand Prix in Qatar.

when she finished 26th .Lehis narrowly defeated world number eight Marie-Florence Candassamy of France

Norway and Russia claimed relay gold as the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Open European Championships concluded in Arber in Germany.

penalty on their way to sealing victory in a time of 39min 10.5sec.Lou Jeanmonnot and Emilien Claude of France

China will make their return to the Hockey Pro League after an absence of more than two years with a doubleheader in the women's competition against India in Oman.

Africa.Canada then withdrew due to concerns over the Omicron variant and COVID-19, with their place taken by France

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections in June can go ahead after a last-minute round-up of delegates helped to push through a hugely significant change to rules concerning vetting of candidates.

comprising Dev Kumar Parmar of Britain, Elda Gjoka of Albania, Adnan Rhoma of Libya, Romain Bizzini of France

There was a spot of good news for British curling shortly before the 2006 Winter Olympics - and it was only 82 years late.

father and son Willie and Laurence Jackson, Robin Welsh and Tom Murray.The quartet beat Sweden 38-7 and France

report from winter sports representatives against a social background in which the winter resorts of France

took place in Lausanne revealed a difference of opinion between the representatives of Switzerland, France

Justinien de Clary and the Marquis de Polignac came forward to inform the Session of 'the desire of France

Then I got a telegram saying we would send an Olympic team to France. I hadn't trained at all.

The International Skating Union (ISU) has relaunched its #UpAgain campaign prior to the Winter Olympics here with the aim of highlighting, what it claims is, the "unbreakable spirit" that drives athletes to compete on ice.

channel, welcoming some global ice skating stars such as Brittany Bowe of the US and Guillaume Cizeron of France

Olympic bronze medallist and world champion Matthias Casse triumphed in the men's under-81 kilograms division at judo's Grand Prix in Almada in Portugal, meaning the first nine events at the tournament have been won by athletes from nine different nations.

Murodjon Yuldoshev earned him victory against Salvador Cases Roca from Spain.Joan-Benjamin Gaba of France

Australia women delivered an impressive thrashing of Russia in the quarter-finals of the latest World Rugby Sevens Series tournament in Seville, while South Africa's men edged past Scotland.

at the semi-final stage in Malaga last weekend.Australia lost their final Pool C match 12-10 against France

comfortable 36-12 win against Canada.England await Ireland in the semi-finals, after they stunned a France

after the Irish triumphed 24-12 against an England team who won Pool C earlier in the day by beating France

Ukraine's Ruslan Tymoshenko proved the seeding wrong to make it into the main draw of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Grand Prix in Qatar.

Tokyo 2020 in the individual men's épée tournament.The man who beat him in Japan, Romain Cannone of France

Sweden knocked out Olympic champions France to set up a European Men's Handball Championship final against

the final 10 seconds, in a 34-33 win for the Swedes.Aymeric Minne scored in the final minute to bring France

Dome.Jim Gottfridsson scored nine goals in the winning effort, which comes 12 months after Sweden beat France