The Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille has been chosen by Paris 2024 as the venue for the preliminary phase of the basketball events for the Olympic Games.

) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).Under the new plan, handball competitions will take place

the handball preliminaries can be staged in Paris, in Hall Six of the Parc des Expositions at Porte de

From the quarter-finals onwards, the basketball competition will take place at Arena Bercy in the heart

la Chapelle, which is expected to host the events of badminton and rhythmic gymnastics.The National

de la Concorde is planned to be the venue for the ceremony which Paris 2024 claims will offer Para athletes

French Olympian Charlotte Hym carried over her impressive qualifying displays to win gold in the women's street skateboard competition at the International Extreme Sports Festival (FISE) here in Montpellier.

result took victory out of the hands of Spain's Daniela Teroz Mendez who scored 4.27 points for second place

It would be great to be able to skate at the Olympic Games in the middle of the Place de la Concorde.

The men's street skateboard final is set to take place tomorrow with Brazilian Ivan Monteiro currently

The Champs-Élysées will receive a "green makeover" before the Paris 2024 Olympics, the French capital’s officials have said.

area shunned by ordinary Parisians, AFP reports.The central thoroughfare, which runs from the Place

de la Concorde to the Place Charles de Gaulle and the Arc de Triomphe, will have more pedestrian areas

pedestrian ring surrounding the monument.The Champs-Élysées, traditional finishing point for the Tour de

Olympics begin ©Getty ImagesAt the bottom end of the two kilometre (1.2 mile) long avenue next to the Place

de la Concorde, the "Re-enchant the Champs-Elysees" plan will involve the revamping of the gardens."

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet claims the planned city-centre Olympic Games Opening Ceremony here will put athletes at the "centre of the stage", with them planned to travel in boats along the River Seine.

Board and International Olympic Committee last December.It is hoped that the Opening Ceremony will take place

message," said Estanguet.Nous sommes le 26 juillet 2024.Vous êtes tous invités au plus grand spectacle de

"runway for athletes".Parisian landmarks including Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Louvre Museum and the Place

de la Concorde are planned to feature during the celebration.In his speech, Estanguet also stressed

Event planning start-up OnePlan has been named an official supporter of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and vowed to help ensure the event runs smoothly.

Digital venue twins of the Stade de France and Place de la Concorde have already been created to test

The competition schedule for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been unveiled today, after being approved by the International Olympic Committee Executive Board.

In total 32 sports are set to be contested across 19 days of action, with 329 events due to take place

held.Handball is scheduled to be the first sport to begin, with football and rugby also set to take place

programme for Paris 2024 is breaking, with competition in this discipline scheduled to begin at the Place

de la Concorde on Friday August 9.The middle weekend of competition, set for Saturday August 3 and Sunday

on Sunday August 11.The Opening Ceremony is scheduled to take place outdoors on the River Seine, with

Paris 2024 has announced the Seine will serve as the venue of the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, with athletes set to travel in boats during a six-kilometre route during the spectacle.

immersion into Paris, with landmarks including the Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Louvre Museum and the Place

de la Concorde featuring.Nous sommes le 26 juillet 2024.Vous êtes tous invités au plus grand spectacle

de tous les temps.You are all invited to the opening ceremony of the @Paris2024 Games !

claimed that no security obstacles have been identified so far.The Opening Ceremony is scheduled to take place

“For the first time ever, rather than being contained in the stadium, it will take place in the heart

Japanese b-girl Ayumi and American b-boy Victor triumphed at the World DanceSport Federation's (WDSF) World Breaking Championships, staged at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

Breaking has previously featured at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, and the Place de la Concorde

A few weeks ago, we marked 1,000 days to go until the Olympic Games return to Paris in 2024, one century after the last edition was hosted in our city in 1924.

in 2024 at the "Marathon Pour Tous", Mass Event Running - the first event of its kind to ever take place

This means, for example, that the fans will be able to enjoy equestrian events at the Château de Versailles

de La Concorde, which will be transformed into an urban sports park featuring skateboarding, BMX and

Ninety-five per cent of the sporting infrastructure used for the Games is either already in place or

Beyond the economic sector, we also created a programme - "Terre de Jeux 2024" - for all the cities and

More than 1,000 runners secured their placed in Paris 2024’s mass-participation marathon after holding off Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge in a special event arranged to mark the 1,000 days countdown to the Opening Ceremony.

set off before Kipchoge in different groups depending on ability today, racing on a course across the Place

de la Concorde and the Champs Elysées.In excess of 1,000 runners finished before the marathon world

The mass-participation race at Paris 2024 is scheduled to take place on the same day as the Olympic marathon.Runners

Olympic marathon champion and world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge is to star in a pursuit race on the Champs-Elysées in Paris later this month to mark 1,000 days until the 2024 Olympic Games.

five-kilometre course before Kipchoge will win spots in the mass-participation marathon scheduled to take place

Kipchoge - in different groups depending on ability, and with pacemakers - on a course encompassing Place

de la Concorde and the Champs Elysées on October 31.Those who cross the line before Kipchoge will win

Majors.In winning the 2018 Berlin marathon, Kipchoge set the world record - 2 hours 1min 39sec.Place de

la Concorde is due to host urban sports during the 2024 Olympics.

Wednesday (September 8) sees the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board assemble for its first post-Tokyo 2020 meeting.

payments should amount to.The news, whenever it comes, should essentially be good: the Games did take place

serious impact on sponsors than broadcasters, since, in addition to the one year’s delay, the Games took place

eyes of the world were drawn irresistibly to Paris, somewhat overshadowing the sports events taking place

not going to be an easy trick to pull off and will probably take more than an urban sports complex on Place

de la Concorde.

There were mixed emotions on the sidelines as the first 3x3 Olympic basketball competition drew to a close here on Wednesday (July 28) night.

3x3 odyssey now turns to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, where the sport is set to be held in the iconic Place

de la Concorde as part an urban park planned by French organisers.The first ever #3x3 Olympic gold medalists

Paris's Champs-Élysées is set to be made into an "extraordinary garden" as part of plans to transform the French capital before and after the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024.

The Place de la Concorde will be redesigned in time for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games ©

the area surrounding the iconic Eiffel Tower into an "extraordinary park at the heart of Paris".The Place

de la Concorde, located at one end of the Champs-Élysées, is also due to be redesigned before Paris

debut at Paris 2024 - officially confirmed last month - will be critical in securing the event’s future place

Asked about his hopes of breaking - as the event is known in its Olympic context - maintaining its place

, while being the biggest stage of them all, is simply an extension of what has already been taking place

Breaking deserves its place at the Olympic Games and we have every confidence that Olympic fans around

aspirations for Paris 2024, where breaking is scheduled to take part with other "urban" sports in the Place

de la Concorde, Tay added: "For dancesport to be showcased at the Olympic Games - the biggest stage