Denmark's Mads Pedersen took victory at the Gent-Wevelgem classic after outsprinting his rivals in the final stretch of the race in Belgium.

The Trek-Segafredo rider broke clear of the likes of Florian Sénéchal of France, and Italy's Matteo Trentin

France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prévot successfully defended her women’s elite cross-country title at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Championships in Austria, as Jordan Sarrou ended Nino Schurter’s five-year reign as men’s world champion.

Bermuda's Flora Duffy and Vincent Luis of France dominated on a new course to win gold at the Triathlon

President Thomas Bach tried to hamper an investigation into corruption by telling him not to travel to France

newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung - and confirmed by Fredericks - that the IOC told him he avoid visiting France

4 after she had sent him a text and, he claims, she told him, "I should be careful not to travel to France

Angeles.The IOC have claimed that it was in this function that Fredericks was told not to travel to France

Diack, who is 87, was sentenced to two-years in prison.Papa Massata Diack, who refused to travel to France

When I stood before the judge with my legal team in France I provided them with all the information they

Fifty-six years ago today, at precisely 3.03pm local time, 19-year-old Yoshinori Sakai ignited a giant Cauldron with his Torch to set in motion the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.

and then transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean to the ground station at Pleumeur-Bodou in northern France

The Media Village being built for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris is to be constructed in two stages, it has been revealed, with 700 homes ready in time for the Games and the remaining 600 completed after the event has finished.

emphasised the importance of making the Media Village as comfortable as possible for journalists visiting France

Media Village, they will take pictures, tweet, and what they see may be their only vision of Paris, France

and the Olympic venues during their stay, so it is the image of France in the world that we are building

Britain’s Tom Pidcock triumphed in the men’s under-23 race at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Mountain Bike World Championships in Leogang-Saalfelden.

to Höll’s time as the Australian cyclist finished 2.651 adrift.Defending champion Myriam Nicole of France

Japan's Yui Kamiji had a perfect day as she wrapped up the women's wheelchair singles title at the French Open in straight sets against her compatriot Momoko Ohtani.

October 9, 2020The favoured pair soundly thumped Marjolein Buis of The Netherlands and Charlotte Famin of France

unseeded pairing were no pushovers after defeating the top seeds Stéphane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer of France

Paris-Roubaix has been cancelled for the first time since the Second World War after a rise in coronavirus cases saw the Lille metropole region placed on maximum alert.

At the request of the Prefect of the North, Prefect of Hauts de France and following the announcement

The Chinese national team is expected to begin preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on its home ice after it was reported that the construction of the National Sliding Center in Yanging is nearing its completion.

well as 60 per cent of the track ice-repairing work too.Eight international ice makers from Russia, France

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has granted permission for its nations boxers to travel to Italy as part of a two-month training camp, preparing their best fighters for next year's re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo. 

the boxers heading to Assisi for training, as reported by the New Indian Express, before competing in France

More than 600 sports facilities across France have been identified as potential training camps for teams

 All the regions in France have been included and 95 out of the 101 departments.A total of 96 departments

are in Metropolitan France, and five are overseas departments, which are also classified as overseas

can begin choosing where they want their athletes to prepare for Paris 2024.Sports facilities across France

The goal is to enable all areas, regardless of means or size, or whether they are located in mainland France

More than 570 rowers from 31 nations are set to compete at this weekend's 2020 European Rowing Championships in Poznan in Poland.

men's double sculls too, including the 2018 world champions Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias of France

exciting events of the weekend.Their closest rivals could well be Claire Bove and Laura Tarantola of France

The Russian Rugby Federation has supported the nomination of its deputy chairman Kirill Yashenkov as a candidate to be Rugby Europe President.

investigation into claims he favoured Top 14 club Montpellier.Laporte, Montpellier owner Mohed Altrad, France

Thomas Pidcock of Britain and Mélanie Pugin of France earned the men and women's e-mountain bike world

 Competition also took place in the cross-country team relay, won by France in 1:27:34.