World Championship gold medallist Bruno Martini has resigned as President of France's Ligue Nationale de Handball (LNH) after being handed a one-year suspended prison sentence for corruption of a minor and recording of child pornography images.

Championships in 1995 and 2001, reached a plea deal with prosecutors with prosecutors approved by a court in Paris

his roles having been convicted of corruption, bribery and influence peddling charges.He continues to protest

Bernard Laporte has been released without charge after being detained for questioning by police in Paris

Rugby vice-chair and temporary stood down as head of the FFR, but has vowed to appeal and continues to protest

Championship crown next month, and rugby sevens is on the programme for next year's Olympic Games in Paris

An investigation has been opened by prosecutors into French Football Federation (FFF) President Noël Le Graët after a claim of a “sexist outrage” was made against him.

The report was submitted to the Paris public prosecutor following testimony from Sonia Souid, an agent

the auditing body that a report had been made in accordance with the criminal code.According to the Paris

who investigated moral and sexual crimes.Demonstrators had gathered outside the FFF headquarters in Paris

last week to protest about the alleged behaviour of Noël Le Graët ©Getty ImagesAfter the allegations

Bernard Laporte has insisted he will not resign as President of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), despite calls for him to do so coming from the organisation's own Ethics Committee and France's Sports Minister.

corruption charges on Tuesday (December 13) and given a two-year suspended prison sentence, but continues to protest

Laporte to go.France is due to stage next year's men's 15-a-side rugby union World Cup ©Getty ImagesA Paris

Dozens have gathered at the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee

to protest the increase in spending for the event.

These demonstrations were held by the Saccage 2024 collective - protest groups comprising of Our Park

is Not for Sale, No to the 2024 Olympics in Paris and Solidaires 93 under police supervision.They came

billion (£3.42 billion/$4.18 billion) to €4.38 billion (£3.77 billion/$4.61 billion).The anti-Olympics protest

being carried out in Paris ©Getty ImagesParis 2024 have argued inflation is the main cause of the increase

an injunction on the construction of the facility, over fears it would affect community allotments.A Paris

Bach does want athletes from Russia and Belarus to be able to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris

Olympic Movement is greater than at any time since the United States-led boycott of Moscow 1980 in protest

hearts, Bach must know that there is no way athletes from Russia or Belarus will be able to compete at Paris

prospects of Ukrainians competing on the track, in the pool and in the gymnasium against such enemies at Paris

while their country is under attack is unthinkable.The prospect of there being no Ukrainian athletes at Paris

Allowing Russia to take part at Paris 2024 while the army is occupying and terrorising its neighbour,

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has insisted that its concerns about the International Boxing Association (IBA) are not related to an individual but "overall governance".

include boxing in the sports programme under the authority of the IBA".Boxing events at Tokyo 2020 and Paris

but IBA officials have recently made a fresh push for Olympic inclusion, including the staging of a protest

about boxing and the boxers, there would have been no boxing in Tokyo and there would be no boxing in Paris

Former world champion Roy Jones Jr has led a group of protestors bearing "no boxing without IBA" and "no Olympics without boxing" tee-shirts and banners to coincide with the start of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Executive Board meeting here today. 

and Italian coach Gabriele Martelli, right, have held talks with IOC officials after being part of a protest

took office in December 2020, mean boxing faces a battle to save its place at the Olympic Games after Paris

The protest took place outside Olympic House on the first day of the IOC Executive Board meeting ©Getty

Pesaro in Italy is to stage the Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships in 2024.

venue.The decision was made at a meeting held before the FIG Congress in Istanbul, which the FGI skipped in protest

approval.This included the process for selecting judges for artistic and trampoline gymnastics for the Paris

Auxerre displayed a banner calling for a boycott of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar during a match against Paris

awarded the World Cup.Last week, fans of German clubs displayed banners across a variety of games in protest

International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev has insisted that the organisation needs to "change the culture of our officials instead of forbidding things" after opting to reintroduce the bout review process.

sanctioned competitions will be able to use the system.Under the ruling, team managers can lodge a protest

within 15 minutes of a points decision being made on a bout.Should the protest be accepted by the technical

unabated" at several major boxing events after Rio 2016.The IOC is again set to organise boxing events at Paris

Craig Vokey has been re-elected as President of Karate Canada for another three years.

Olympian as the sport debuted on the programme.He reached the Games amid high drama at the qualifier in Paris

of The Netherlands.The Dutchman thought he had qualified for the Olympics but a successful Canadian protest

Paris is among a group of French cities that have decided against showing FIFA World Cup matches on big

screens or setting up fan zones, in protest at host nation Qatar's record on human rights.

The stance of Paris is particularly noteworthy because its leading football club, Paris Saint-Germain

treatment of migrant workers.These issues, coupled by environmental worries, have led authorities in Paris

Cup has been organised, both in terms of the environment and the social aspect," Pierre Rabadan, the Paris

Lille joined in Paris in abandoning big screens, with Mayor Martine Aubry calling the 2022 World Cup

human rights, the environment and sport" on Twitter.Pierre Rabadan insisted there was "no question" of Paris

Work on the Paris 2024 Olympic Village was halted as part of a day of protest in France against low wages

challenges.Industrial action will not make that any easier.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Paris

The recent evocative pieces on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games by my insidethegames colleague Philip Barker brought personal memories flooding back. Not that they were ever far from consciousness.

Paris, whose citizens are no strangers to terrorism, expects to spend double that figure.Black September

stood on the rostrum in Mexico City with heads bowed and raised fists clad in black gloves in a silent protest