Sébastien Mansois has been appointed as the national technical director of France Judo by French Sports

Since March 2020, Mansois has overseen France Judo's COVID-19 crisis unit as well as managing the resumption

national technical director in January 2021 and will now take the top job within the department of France

I am happy that a new national technical director has been appointed," said France Judo President Stéphane

@steph_nomis et toute l'équipe de France Judo vous adressent leurs meilleurs vœux pour 2022 ! ???

le bilan d'activité de 2021 : https://t.co/3OQITC6yEG#FierdEtreJudoka pic.twitter.com/y2FQnRV2Ox— France

The Judo Sambo Club Honfleur in France recently reopened its doors for the first time in more than a

particularly affected clubs and associations," said President Bertrand Nolbert, as reported by Ouest France

The Judo Sambo Club Honfleur in France has more than 100 fighters registered for 2022 ©Getty ImagesGabriel

Olympic ice dance silver medallists Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France have opted to

The French Athletics Federation (FFA) has signed a four-year deal with Adidas for the company to become its official kit supplier.

Adidas replaces Asics, which had been the FFA's kit supplier since 2013, and athletes representing France

According to reports in France, the FFA's deal with Asics was worth €2 million (£1.7 million/$2.3 million

Marte Olsbu Røiseland of Norway is hopeful a strong week of performances at the next stop on the Biathlon World Cup calendar in Ruhpolding will help propel her to her first overall title.

German venue, which includes sprint, relay and pursuit races for men and women.Quentin Fillon Maillet of France

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has announced the cancellation of this month’s Cross-Country and Nordic Combined World Cup events in Slovenia due to COVID-19 concerns.

the Cross-Country World Cup as competitions, scheduled to run from January 14 to 16 in Les Rousses in France

France is to stage the Rugby League World Cup in 2025, the French Rugby League Federation (FFRXIII) has

to the coronavirus crisis, but the junior competition will join the fray for he first time in 2025.France

hosted the men's World Cup twice before, in 1954 and 1972.International Rugby League had already named France

after French capital Paris hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Games.It will also come two years after France

Ido Brosh has been elected President of the European Esports Federation (EEF), which has welcomed 18 new nations to bring its total membership up to 41 and become the largest continental esports body in the world.

, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France

Mikaël Kingsbury went to the top of the moguls standings on home snow, having won his fifth race of the season and his second of the weekend at the International Ski Federation Freestyle Ski World Cup in Mont-Tremblant.

78.78, just in front of young American Nick Page.Kazakhstan's Pavel Kolmakov and Benjamin Cavet of France

Britain's Charlotte Bankes extended her women's Snowboard Cross World Cup lead with a victory in Krasnoyarsk, while Germany's Martin Nörl clinched a first win for more than three years.

champion clinched a second victory from four events this season, beating second-placed Chloé Trespeuch of France

Fifty years ago the world saw for the first time canoe slalom on the Olympic programme. This year, our canoeing family will return to this historic venue in Augsburg to celebrate an auspicious anniversary when it hosts the 2022 International Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe and Extreme Slalom World Championships.

France has long been a global leader in all canoeing disciplines, and we are confident the fans in Paris

Marte Olsbu Røiseland of Norway extended her lead at the top of the overall women's standings with victory in the women's sprint at the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof.

campaign, and just his fourth World Cup victory, after finishing 6.5 clear of Emilien Jacquelin of France

France's Olympic bronze medallist Victor Muffat-Jeandet has suffered a major blow to his Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic hopes, sustaining a broken ankle at the abandoned Alpine Ski World Cup in Zagreb as the International Ski Federation's (FIS) decision to allow the event to start faces criticism.

He will return to France to complete the assessment and make therapeutic decisions on his unavailability

Margot Boch of France claimed her first Women's Monobob World Series win to deny Stephanie Schneider

One hundred years ago this week on a winter’s afternoon at Wembley in North London, a simple ceremony marked the beginning of work on what was to become one of the most famous sporting arenas in the world.

silver behind Gaston Reiff of Belgium.The events open to women were limited, but Micheline Ostermayer of France