The host city for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will have to implement a carbon management and reduction plan for the event, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach told the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

2024 event, claiming the issue is “the very DNA of our candidacy”.Existing sporting venues, such as Roland

Garros and the Stade de France, form a key part of their attempt at bringing the Summer Games to the

costs by incorporating many existing venues including iconic settings such as the Stade de France, Roland

Garros and the Grand Palais.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced it has extended its sponsorship deal with French bank BNP Paribas for a further five years.

“Their long running love affair with tennis, which started in 1973 with Roland Garros, has benefited

Britain’s Gordon Reid has surged to the top of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Wheelchair Doubles Tennis Rankings after he partnered Frenchman Michael Jeremiasz to the Wheelchair Doubles Masters title in Mission Viejo, California.

competition in September, which came after Reid and Japanese player Shingo Kunieda reigned supreme at Roland

Garros in Paris earlier in the year.The Anglo-French duo were in superb form in California, winning

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has released the confirmed list of entrants for the upcoming UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters event in Mission Viejo, California, where American duo Nick Taylor and David Wagner will bid for a ninth quad doubles title.

hat-trick of Wheelchair Doubles Masters titles during the event in California ©Getty ImagesCurrent Roland

Garros and US Open champions Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot of The Netherlands are set to mount

This week’s news that the Orbit Tower in the London 2012 Olympic Park has made a loss of more than half a million pounds for the last financial year has given Len Duvall, a Labour member of the London Assembly, a sporting chance to make his opinion clear about the project that was commissioned in 2008 soon after the election of the Conservatives’ very own Boris Johnson as Mayor of London.

Eiffel Tower, pictured featuring a giant tennis ball during this year's French Open tennis at nearby Roland

Garros ©Getty ImagesBut perhaps the Orbit is going to be a slow burner.

Britain's Jordanne Whiley and Japan's Yui Kamiji won their second successive Wimbledon title today after beating arch-rivals Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot in the ladies' wheelchair doubles. 

Grand Slam title out of the last seven majors after finishing runners-up to Griffioen and van Koot at Roland

Garros last month.Britain's Jordanne Whiley and Japan's Yui Kamiji have now won six of the last seven

7, 6-2 by Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina and Nicolas Peifer of France.A second Grand Slam title for Roland

Garros doubles champion Reid looked to be on the cards after beating top seeds, Japan's Shingo Kunieda

The Netherlands' Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot will be seeking a third Wimbledon triumph after reaching the final to set-up a re-match with Yui Kamiji of Japan and Jordanne Whiley of Great Britain.

ImagesIt will be tough against the Dutch pair, who last month beat Kamiji and Whiley in the final at Roland

Garros to end their streak of five consecutive Grand Slam doubles titles. 

Eduard Ramanov leads the candidates for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Allianz Athlete of the Month poll for June 2015 after helping Russia win their second consecutive Cerebral Palsy Football World Championships at St George's Park in Burton on Trent in England.

rankings ©Getty ImagesAlso nominated is Dutch wheelchair tennis player Jiske Griffioen.She captured the Roland

Garros women's singles title, which elevated her to the number one world ranking.

Two-time defending champions Stephane Houdet of France and Shingo Kunieda of Japan lead the entries for the men's Wimbledon Wheelchair Tennis Double Event taking place during the annual grass court Grand Slam next month, it has been announced.

January.Competition will be provided by the likes of Britain's Gordon Reid, winner of his first Grand Slam title at Roland

Garros this year when partnering Kunieda, who will team-up with France's Michael Jeremiasz, a three-time

and Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez and make their debut as a partnership after finishing runners-up at Roland

Garros for the last two years, while another Frenchman in Joachim Gerard pairs up with world number

and Whiley in each of the last five Grand Slam Finals, and arrive fresh from victory on the clay at Roland

Slam title of his career with a thrilling victory over Serbian world number one Novak Djokovic at Roland

Garros in Paris.

overcame her illness to beat the Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova in a thrilling three-set final at Roland

Garros in Paris.

rhythm and banished her nerves to clinch the second set on a tie-break and send the women’s final at Roland

Garros into a decider for only the third time in 15 years.Williams however came out for the crucial

Grand Slam win over compatriot Federer to reach last four at French OpenJune 2015: Sharapova stunned at Roland

Garros but men's favourites progress to quarter-finals

first-ever French Open final with a battling four-set victory over home favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at Roland

Garros in Paris today.

Grand Slam win over compatriot Federer to reach last four at French OpenJune 2015: Sharapova stunned at Roland

Garros but men's favourites progress to quarter-finalsMay 2015: Ivanovic advances to French Open quarter-finals

World number one Serena Williams overcame both illness and Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky at Roland Garros

by holding serve with a series of aggressive strokes.The 25-year-old Swiss, who prior to her run at Roland

Garros this year had only progressed beyond the second round at the tournament on one occasion, moved

Slam win over compatriot Federer to reach last four at French OpenJune 2015: Sharapova stunned at Roland

Garros but men's favourites progress to quarter-finalsMay 2015: Ivanovic advances to French Open

Ceaselessly pursuing the truth, as I tend to do when I have an odd moment, I noticed a tweet today from the Daily Mirror’s chief football writer, the estimable John Cross: “Wonderful to turn over to Andy Murray and see some actual sport. Almost forgotten what it was like.”

And Murray was indeed providing the Roland Garros with a classic exhibition of his Scottish arts and

the French Open since 2009 on Spain’s Rafael Nadal with a stunning straight sets victory today at Roland

Garros in Paris.

Slam win over compatriot Federer to reach last four at French OpenJune 2015: Sharapova stunned at Roland

Garros but men's favourites progress to quarter-finalsMay 2015: Ivanovic advances to French Open