Spencer Smith has won the first leg of the Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Šamorín in Slovakia by the finest of margins.

Fredricson remains top of the season's leaderboard despite an eighth placed finish.Olivier Robert of France

The 30-year-old woman who caused a crash at this year’s Tour de France that left many riders seriously

of a sign at the roadside set in train a mass crash during the opening stage of this year's Tour de France

incursions onto or into the field of play can be wittingly – or unwittingly, as in the case of the Tour de France

The Tour de France sign-bearer has put herself into a long, unhappy narrative of fan excesses which,

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today approved the candidatures of 17 athletes for the IOC Athletes' Commission (AC) election that is set to take place at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Five-times Olympic champion Martin Fourcade of France is one of the candidates.The biathlete won two

Voting has opened for the election of World Triathlon’s Athletes’ Committee as 17 candidates battle it out for 10 positions.

World Triathlon has been a fundamental principle of our organisation since its creation in Avignon, France

Valerian Lebrun has won the Finn World Masters after the final day of racing was cancelled due to light winds on Mar Menor in Spain.

three in the masters category for sailors aged 40 to 49.In the grand masters division, Laurent Hay of France

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach expressed "concern" over France's performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to the country's delegation as it prepares to host the next edition of the Games in Paris in 2024.

France picked up 33 medals in the Japanese capital, its joint-lowest tally since the turn of the century

having taken 42 five years earlier.A National Sports Agency (ANS) internal document seen by the Agence France-Presse

He called on athletes to "do much more" at Paris 2024 and set a target of France finishing in the top

which it has historically been successful with 41 golds.Athletics is also included in this category as France

medals, a total which it matched this summer.Nine hosts have finished top of the medal table, including France

The 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series will resume in Yokohama in Japan in May alongside the start of the World Triathlon Para Series, after the international governing released an initial schedule next year.

Triathlon Para Cup events are scheduled for successive weekends in June, taking place in Besançon in France

The roadside spectator who caused a huge crash during the opening stage of this year’s Tour de France

Palao has urged roadside spectators to act responsibly in response to the mass pile-up at the Tour de France

The Ashes series between Australia and England this December now seems likely to go ahead. England named a touring party this week after long discussions between the two cricket Boards.

The party crossed France by rail and visited the Palais de Versailles.

Kenyan police have claimed they are closing in on the murderer of world 10 kilometres record-holder Agnes Tirop, who was found murdered yesterday.

parents saying that he'd committed something wrong," Keiyo North police commander Tom Makori told Agence France-Presse

French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to Seine-Saint-Denis today to visit Paris 2024 venues and detail his Government's plan to finance thousands of local sporting facilities across the country.

€50 million (£42 million/$57.9 million).The promises come as Macron campaigns for re-election, with France

The Spanish Federation of Climbing and Mountain Sports (FEDME) has claimed it does not have enough money to send athletes to competitions for the rest of the year.

month’s IFSC Continental Youth Cup in Soure in Portugal as well as another upcoming youth event in France

Davide Tizzano has been elected as the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games' (CIJM) first new President for 18 years, succeeding Amar Addadi, with Heraklion in Greece confirmed as host of the 2023 Mediterranean Beach Games.

Members, with Lebanon's General Souhail Khoury, Dinos Michaelides of Cyprus and Alain Lunzenfichter of France

Organisers have labelled the route for the 2022 Tour de France "one for the attackers," while the inaugural

first stage on French soil will run from Dunkirk to Calais in the Nord department, while the second in France

stretch of cobbles, which return to the Tour route for the first time since 2018.As well as Denmark and France

pic.twitter.com/4eccacs9Ip— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) October 14, 2021Col du Granon, which is 2,413 metres

pic.twitter.com/3Qms6zgoCv— Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) October 14, 2021The 82km

first stage from the Eiffel Tower to the Champs-Élysées in Paris will launch the Tour de France Femmes

Scrums will be absent from the rugby league international later this month between England and France

they are ye to return.The RFL Board has approved their return in 2022, but the internationals between France

were axed in an attempt to reduce the number of close contacts over the course of a match.England and France