World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) President Shawn Tay said the organisation is "profoundly disappointed" after breaking was left off the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic programme.

Breaking will make its Olympic debut at Paris 2024 but has been snubbed for inclusion in LA so will miss

out in California four years later.The sport was one of nine in the frame to be proposed for the LA

that we must work together to do everything within our power to exceed expectations next summer on the Place

de la Concorde."

WDSF is also preparing for breaking's second appearance at the Youth Olympic Games, scheduled to take place

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed the Olympic Agenda 2020+5 Midway Report released prior to the Session here shows "what we can achieve together".

gender parity in the number of participants, a move to more urban settings such as the Eiffel Tower, Place

de la Concorde and Pont Alexandre III and the unprecedented Opening Ceremony along the River Seine,

The Council of Paris has approved controversial plans for some second-hand booksellers to leave the banks of the River Seine during the Opening Ceremony of next year's Olympic Games, citing security reasons.

cérémonie d’ouverture des #JOP2024 @Paris2024 participera du rayonnement de la #France.

Garantir la sécurité de tous pendant cet événement guide l'action de la @prefpolice.

I fear that if we leave these boxes, in a place where there will be hundreds of thousands of people,

at the Stade de France on August 11.The Paralympics Opening Ceremony is due to be held at the Place

de la Concorde on August 28 and the Closing Ceremony at the Stade de France on September 8.

The Champs-Élysées is set to undergo a renovation in time for next year's Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, including the installation of new terraces for restaurants and cafes.

The Place de la Concorde at the western end of the Champs-Élysées is due to host 3x3 basketball, breaking

Paris 2024 quota places are up for grabs for the winners of the B-Boys and B-Girls finals at the World DanceSport Federation World Breaking Championships, which are set to begin in Leuven in Belgium tomorrow.

Breaking is set to make its debut at next summer’s Olympics, and one quota place will go to the country

 Breaking competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics is due to take place on the Place de la Concorde

Less than 12 months before Paris hosts its first Olympic Games for a century, I imagined that the French capital would be buzzing with anticipation and there would be a sense of growing excitement. 

travelling round the city via train, taxi, bus and foot, apart from the Olympic rings attached to the Hôtel de

Ville, the city hall, it wasn’t until we were on our way to Charles de Gaulle Airport for the flight

the Paris 2024 mascot, proved hard to locate when insidethegames wanted to buy some at the Charles de

proposed equestrian venue at Versailles and a quick scoot around some of the city centre sites like the Place

de la Concorde, Grand Palais, Champ de Mars, Esplanade des Invalides and, of course, the Eiffel Tower

Media giants NBC have insisted their coverage of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris will be "record setting" and "one for the ages,"

Zenkel added.The Games are set to begin on August 28, 2024 with an Opening Ceremony centred around the Place

de la Concorde.

Artistic director of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony Thomas Jolly has stated that the curtain raiser must be "militant".

The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony is set to centre around the Place de la Concorde with

Champs-Élysées ©Paris 2024The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony is set to centre around the Place

de la Concorde, the largest square in the French capital.Around 4,400 athletes representing 184 delegations

 The top of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, at the Arc de Triomphe, down to the Place is a 30-minute

same energy [and] same signature" for the Ceremonies.The Olympic Opening Ceremony is also set to take place

Paris' prefect of police Laurent Nuñez has admitted that the Paris 2024 Olympic Games "will be complicated to secure" with less than 12 months to go until the Opening Ceremony on July 26 next year.

It is due to be the first edition of the Summer Olympics to take place in France for 100 years, which

There is a completely new opening ceremony, many sites to secure, races that take place in urban areas

competitions organised in intramural Paris must be held in a dozen sites, at the Grand Palais, on the Champ-de-Mars

, near the Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde or the Parc des Princes."

have them vacated before the Olympic Opening Ceremony ©Getty ImagesCrowds were mismanaged at the Stade de

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today invited 203 of the 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to take part in the Paris 2024 Olympics that start in a year's time.

Citing the French founding father of the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and the hosting of

Last week we showed Chefs de Mission around the site and they gave us a great feedback."

And of course there will be the unique Opening Ceremony on the Seine and in the Place de la Concorde.

Chefs de Mission set to serve at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been taken on a tour of the future

the tour which resulted in 400 people walking through the capital.In small groups, they passed by the Place

de la Concorde, the Alexandre III bridge, the Grand Palais and Les Invalides which are all sites that

the tour which saw question and answer sessions with the Organising Committee take place.The Chefs de

Mission visited the Place de la Concorde which is due to host competition at next year's Olympic Games

©Getty ImagesAssurances were also given about security at the Games, scheduled to take place from July

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised the Paris 2024 Olympic Flame "will light up emblematic historic and popular places" when it arrives in the heart the city.

group of 240 people are expected to help carry the Flame around the centre of Paris over two days.La Place

de La Concorde, designated venue for 3x3, skateboarding, BMX freestyle and the new sport of breaking

Torch Relay.The Flame is also set to visit the cathedral of Notre Dame.The schedule also passes through Place

populaires de notre ville !

Triomphe.It is scheduled to conclude at the Place de la Republique after a journey of 27.5 kilometres.It

India Sardjoe of The Netherlands won women's breaking gold at the European Games here to seal a place

and b-boys to qualify.Nicknamed "India" in breaking competition, Sardjoe secured a direct Paris 2024 place

expressed her pride at becoming only the second b-girl after Fatima El-Mamouny of Morocco to secure a place

men's tournament, Dann narrowly won the final 2-1 against Menno van Gorp of The Netherlands to seal a place

to compete in the men's and women's events at Paris 2024, with breaking due to be held on the iconic Place

de la Concorde.

As the dust settles on an action packed six days of 3x3 basketball, we are able to look back proudly on what was to date the greatest FIBA 3x3 World Cup in our sport's history.

in the hope of being part of 3x3 basketball’s Olympic return.The sport will be played at the iconic Place

de la Concorde - a fitting location for a sport born on the streets and now marching onto a new Olympic

A major feature of Paris 2024's legacy has come closer to its realisation after the Ministry of Transport unveiled the map of the 415-kilometre cycling network set to be completed for the Games.

will see Parisians and visitors able to ride from Bercy Arena in the 12th arrondissement down to the Place

de la Concorde and Grand Palais in the eighth and beyond.The Trocadéro, Eiffel Tower, Roland Garros,

Of course you need bikes, there are the Île-de-France residents who will use theirs and also self-service