Kenya's double Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge and Peres Jepchirchir, the defending women's champion, were announced on Thursday as part of a star-studded marathon team for the upcoming Paris Olympics, athletics officials said.

its men's and women's marathon teams for Paris 2024, with six women and five men set to seek glory in France

French President Emmanuel Macron has defended Franco-Malian singer Aya Nakamura against criticism from the far-right who oppose her performance at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

a Paris monument, show how difficult it will be to please everyone in a country as cosmopolitan as France

Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard suffered a broken collarbone and several broken ribs

Vingegaard, who won the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023, was stretchered to an ambulance.

Speaking to the press after the inauguration of the Paris 2024 Aquatics Centre, French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that there is a Plan B for the opening ceremony, but called for greater confidence to reassure the public about possible terrorist attacks.

France, which has suffered 22 attacks since 2015, declared its highest level of alert following the 22

French President Macron warned last Thursday of the danger of Russian disinformation during the Paris Olympics, saying his country was ready for the challenge. "I don't doubt" that the Games will be targeted by Russia, "including in the field of information," Macron said at the inauguration of the Aquatic Centre, the largest sports facility built for next summer's Olympics.  

threats to the security or smooth running of the Olympic Games, the biggest sporting event to be held in France

Israel and Hamas in Gaza are complicating efforts to secure the Olympic Games, which will be held in France

The President of the French Republic inaugurated the Seine-Saint-Denis Olympic Aquatics Centre in the city of Saint-Denis, next to the Porte de la Chapelle Arena, which was built specifically for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

, we want our athletes to win many medals and we want it all to be a source of incredible pride for France

inaugurating the Aquatics Centre, a wooden building that resembles a wave rising next to the Stade de France

, the French President declared: "It is proof that France knows how to honour its commitments.This is

It will be the largest swimming pool in France and will enable the country to host the European Swimming

features of the Games, drawing on existing infrastructure, starting with the neighbouring Stade de France

Health agency has warned of the risk of importing the disease as France will welcome millions of foreign

Public Health France (SPF) is calling for vigilance in the face of a resurgence of measles in France

, in 2020, the measles virus had "circulated very little, causing a few isolated sporadic cases" in France

 In 2023, it led to 27 hospitalisations in France, including two in intensive care, mainly children

 In 2023, France recorded "a notable increase in imported cases” (31 compared with five in 2022)

The French Minister for Sport and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, has assured that the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony has a contingency plan in place and has ruled out any "terrorist threat" at this stage.

continue to monitor the terrorist threat if necessary," Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera told the France

On 25 March, Darmanin stated that France "was be ready" to ensure security.A practice run for the opening

France will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games from 26 July to 8 September, with at least 10 million

Olympic and Paralympic Week, with educational activities for more than 2 million young people across France

Week was launched today at an event organised by Paris 2024 in partnership with Danone, the Ille de France

Academic Region, the Ile de France Regional Olympic and Sports Committee (CROSIF), the French Paralympic

GETTY IMAGESThis 'Champions' Day' marks the start of a week of events across France to teach children

the best possible result at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Team Mexico have held a training camp in France

Ben Binyamin was a professional footballer who was left for dead by Hamas militants when they stormed Israel on 7 October 2023, but after extensive rehabilitation he is now a defender for the Israeli national amputee team.

heart of Israel's amputee national football team, which dreams of winning the Euro 2024 tournament in France

📅 1st June - 8th June📍Évian-les-Bains, France pic.twitter.com/FcaZix8S0q— EAFF (@EuroAmp) March 18,

The latest Para Table Tennis Rankings for April have confirmed the qualification of 109 athletes for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

 China, Korea and hosts France top the Para Table Tennis rankings with 20, 16 and 14 players respectively

Exactly 35 years ago, on 1 April 1989, when the city of Avignon, France, played a pivotal role in the

On 1 April 1989, in the historic city of Avignon, France, the headquarters of our federation was established

Spain, Portugal and Morocco are set to host the 2030 World Cup, with the African nation determined not to be left behind in the race to host the final. A new 115,000-seater stadium and problems at the Spanish Federation could see the Bernabeu or Camp Nou overturned as venues.

fans for one of the best and most emotional finals in history between Messi's Argentina and Mbappé's France

The Dutchman rode to victory in the rain at the Tour of Flanders and now has three victories on the cobbles to add to his tally of six. Along with Pogacar, he now has five monuments to his name - the two riders with the most victories in the race, a far cry from Eddy Merckx's 19.

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar will skip the spring classics in favour of a Giro d'Italia and Tour de France

When he wears the yellow jersey at the 2021 Tour de France, one image will remain in everyone's mind:

The sixties rider who never won the Tour de France or many other races, along with Eddy Merckx and Jacques

-Bernard Hinault (France): 5 from 1977 to 1984) (2 Liège-Bastogne-Liège, 2 Giro di Lombardia, 1 Paris-Roubaix