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Ukrainian whizz-kid Bilodid set to return to competition at IJF Grand Prix in Tbilisi

  • Judo

Ukrainian star Daria Bilodid is set to return to action for the first time since becoming junior world champion in October when she competes at the sixth edition of the International Judo Federation (IJF) Grand Prix in Tbilisi this weekend.

Colombia.On Sunday (March 31), former world champions Avtandili Tchrikishvili of Georgia and Loic Pietri of France





Paris 2024 to select tender for Aquatics Centre in November

  • Paris 2024

Paris 2024 is due to select the successful tender for its aquatics venue in November as French organisers prepare to analyse the proposals submitted before the deadline tomorrow.

2024 had initially proposed building a permanent 15,000-capacity aquatics centre close to the Stade de France


Mike Rowbottom: Breaking News - street dance takes another step towards Paris 2024. But should it?

  • Inside the Blogs

The term "Breaking News" was never so correctly applied as in yesterday’s announcement that breakdancing had moved another step closer to being part of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. 

breaking’s likely inclusion in the Paris pantheon of Olympic sports is that it has been hugely popular in France

Paris 2024 as "breakdancing" - better known as breaking - gets a step closer ©Getty ImagesIn 1984, France


Four countries to host FIBA EuroBasket 2021 following seven applications

  • Basketball

Four countries will host the men's edition of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) EuroBasket 2021 after seven National Federations applied in total. 

final phase.Multiple countries have hosted the competition together before, with Croatia, Germany, France


David Owen: The fine line between endurance sport and lunacy

  • Inside the Blogs

Sprinters are all fine and dandy, but I have always been an endurance man myself.

extraordinary - mad, even - endurance event that I was totally unfamiliar with, which was held in north-eastern France

you are wondering how a mere seven-stage road race can be regarded as tougher than, say, the Tour de France

occasionally poignant, counterpoint to the main story.The author alludes at one point to a remark by Tour de France

’s bike-shop in Luxembourg, Isitt discusses the "lunacy of early bike racing" with the 2010 Tour de France






Athletes from 13 countries attend IBSF monobob training camp

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

attended a International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) monobob training camp in La Plagne in France

 Athletes from Belgium, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland,



Putin praises Russian team for success at Winter Universiade

  • Krasnoyarsk 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised the success of the country’s team at a meeting to discuss the recent Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk.

“For example, France was represented at the freestyle skiing competitions by Perrine Laffont, Pyeongchang