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Torch Relay Stage 13: Dordogne and its amazing history

  • Paris 2024

The flamboyant Dordogne region welcomed the Olympic Torch Relay for this 13th stage, from Bergerac to Périgueux, after a special Tuesday when it was the main attraction at the Cannes Film Festival and its famous red carpet.

Chinours, a young shooter who joined the CREPS sports centre in Talence and is aiming to qualify for Los

Angeles 2028, lit the cauldron on the Place Tourny in Périgueux.


2nd Pre-Olympic Boxing Tournament in Bangkok: Last chance to secure a ticket to Paris 2024

  • Boxing

This second pre-Olympic tournament will award 51 quotas, 23 for women and 28 for men, from 24 May to 2 June in the Thai capital. A total of 188 tickets have already been awarded. These were distributed through the continental qualifiers and the first pre-Olympic tournament in Italy.

A women's boxing programme was then launched with the aim of being present at Los Angeles 2028.


Chilean marathoner accuses World Athletics of changing rules to exclude him from Paris

  • Olympics

Speaking exclusively to Inside The Games, Hugo Catrileo confirmed what he had said on social media, where he described World Athletics' decision to change the qualification system for Paris as a disgrace. "This decision has affected me psychologically and emotionally," he said.

I'll send them an email with my story to see if I can qualify for Los Angeles 2028 in a throwing or jumping


Fourth edition of the European Games: First step for Istanbul 2027

  • European Games

President Spyros Capralos presented Istanbul as the host of the fourth European Games to be held in 2027. He did so alongside the Mayor of the bicontinental city, Mr Ekrem İmamoğlu, who both highlighted the virtues of the great Turkish metropolis.

the fourth European Games, probably at the end of June 2027.The event will take place one year before Los

Angeles 2028, and by providing qualifying places for the thirty-fourth modern Olympic Games, success


Cricket's newest stadium opens in New York

  • ICC T20 Men’s World Cup

The newly-built Nassau County International Cricket Stadium was launched on 15 May with theInternational Cricket Council (ICC) "excited" to conquer new territories through the T20 World Cup in June, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday. 

World Cup (@T20WorldCup) May 16, 2024T20 Cricket will also feature as one of five new sports at the Los

Angeles Olympics in 2028.Building a cricket stadium in Nassau proved to be a challenge for the ICC,


Van der Poel's journey: From mud to the road on his way to Paris 2024

  • Cycling

Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel, six-time cyclocross world champion, is undergoing a change at the highest level. His latest ambition is to add the Olympic gold medal in road cycling to the rainbow jersey he already wears in the same discipline. It would be the first time that anyone has ever achieved the triple crown.

even after that, he's not going to give up on what he really set his mind to doing years ago.At the Los

Angeles Games in 2028, he added, he would "maybe go for mountain bike gold".


Taiyuan was awarded WT Grand Prix Final at the Extraordinary WT Council meeting

  • Taekwondo

The World Taekwondo Extraordinary Council Meeting was held on 12 May on the occasion of the WT Coach-Referee joint training camp for the Paris 2024 and featured a full agenda including the election of the host cities of the 2024 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final and 2025 World Taekwondo Grand Prix Challenges. 

2024 by the sport manager of the Paris Organising Committee, proposals of the Taekwondo programme for Los

Angeles 2028, and World Taekwondo’s Sustainability initiatives including two projects on gender equality


WBSC celebrates ten years on World Baseball Day

  • Baseball and Softball

The year 2024 holds special significance for international baseball, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) as a global governing body. In celebration of this milestone, the WBSC Executive Board has designated 10 May as the official World Baseball Softball Day.

Youth Olympic Games in Dakar and baseball and softball set to return to the Olympic programme at the 2028

Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the future is bright," concluded Fraccari.


AOC welcomes major boost for AIS

  • Olympics

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's announcement of a significant investment in facilities at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra.

are also committed to achieving a great legacy for Australian sport in the time beyond Paris – with Los

Angeles in 2028, a wonderful home Games in 2032 and for decades to come,” the 65-year-old concluded.


WBSC Player Summit at IOC: 350 players attend Olympic House meeting

  • Baseball and Softball

meeting of officials and players ahead of the return of baseball and softball to the Olympic programme in Los

Angeles in 2028.

summit in person," Bach said.Bach advised the athletes to "focus on their next Olympic participation in Los

Angeles".


The IOC and its shift towards urban sport

  • Olympics

The IOC has a premise: to reach a wider audience in order to prolong the life of Olympism in the face of today's digital dynamism. The focus is increasingly on urban sports, which are being included more and more frequently. Flying Disc leads the way, followed by TeqBall and Dodgeball.

the Olympic Games, even if it means adapting it a little, as will happen with American football in Los

Angeles 2028 (it will be played in its "flag" or "touch" version, without contact, which will be an

absolute novelty).Los Angeles 2028 will add cricket, lacrosse, flag football (a form of American football


IOC and World Boxing meet ahead of potential Los Angeles 2028 cooperation

  • Los Angeles 2028

Committee (IOC) in Lausanne on Monday, as it bids to be the international federation for boxing at the Los

Angeles 2028 Olympics.

would need "a partner international federation for boxing by early 2025" if the sport is to be on the Los

Angeles Games programme.World Boxing, whose president is former IBA presidential candidate Boris van

boxing.According to World Boxing, the IOC insisted during the meeting that - in order for boxing to be part of the Los

Angeles 2028 programme - the new international federation had to be supported by a global body of national


Weightlifting: Armenia wants to improve on performance at European Championship

  • Weightlifting

During the Executive Board meeting of the International Weightlifting Federation in Phuket, Thailand, on 29 March, it was decided that Yerevan will host the 2027 World Weightlifting Championships.

this level," said Harutyunyan.The 2027 World Championships will be the biggest qualifying event for Los

Angeles 2028 and Mohammed Jalood mentioned its importance."

of Armenia in Paris 2024.The IWF will support Armenia to organise the best qualifying tournament for Los

Angeles 2028.