Organisers of next month's Smart Cities and Sport Summit in Paris have promised an early taste of next year's Olympic Games in the French capital.

Paralympic Games and the River Seine Pierre Rabadan.Paris 2024 venues in Paris City Hall and the Stade Roland

Garros are both due to be used to host sessions.

Brazil's Ana Patrícia Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa made it back-to-back elite 16 event victories on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour in Paris going into the defence of their World Championships title this month.

known as Duda, followed up their triumph in the German city of Hamburg in August with gold at the Stade Roland

Garros in the French capital.Their opponents in the final for the second consecutive stop were Kristen

New Zealand's Olympic heavyweight bronze medallist David Nyika has opted against competing at Paris 2024 to focus on his professional career.

July 27 to August 10, with preliminary rounds taking place at the Arena Paris Nord and finals at the Roland

Garros Stadium.

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has expressed his intent to compete at next year’s Olympics in Paris as he prepares himself physically and mentally for a "very congested and challenging" schedule.

singles bronze at Beijing 2008 before leaving London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 without a medal.Roland Garros

Paris 2024 tennis competition just 13 days after the conclusion of Wimbledon on grass courts.Roland Garros

It's going to be a very congested and challenging schedule next year, with Roland Garros on clay, Wimbledon

Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues in the form of the Hôtel de Ville and Stade Roland Garros

scheduled to stage the gala dinner at the summit before the closing session takes place at the Stade Roland

wheelchair tennis at the Paralympics as well as tennis and boxing competition during the Olympics.The Stade Roland

Garros is set to stage conference talks and the closing session of this year's smartcities & sport

The first test event for next year's Olympic Games has begun with an international sailing competition in the southern French city of Marseille.

at eight venues by Paris 2024.The first of these operational tests is set to be held this month at Roland-Garros

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.

Découvrez le parcours ⤵️pic.twitter.com/pzrznShmLJ— Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) July 4, 2023The Stade Roland

Garros, venue for Olympic tennis, boxing and Paralympic wheelchair tennis, is also included in the loop.The

Alexey Sarana was crowned chess champion on the second day of competition at the Olympic Esports Week in Singapore just two months after switching his allegiances from Russia to Serbia.

Britain’s William Foster, a two-time Roland Garros eSeries champion, responded to his shock defeat to

Rafael Nadal's hopes of a potential swansong at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be subject to an appeal to the International Tennis Federation (ITF), with the process receiving criticism from one member federation President.

announced his plans to retire next year and it is thought that the Spaniard had hoped to bow out at Roland

Garros, where the Paris 2024 tennis competitions will be held.It is also where he won a record 14 French

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.

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

Garros, and Parc des Princes will all also be accessible on two wheels."

President of the Île-de-France Region Valérie Pécresse has warned that there are transport problems in the west of Paris around the Parc des Princes that need attention prior to the city's hosting of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

There is now a consensus for a high-capacity shuttle bus between Porte Dauphine and Roland Garros, but

Île-de-France President Valérie Pécresse and Autonomous Parisian Transportation Administration (RATP) chief executive Jean Castex have insisted that the extension to line 14 of the city's metro will be completed before the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Will we manage to transport all those who will go to the western flank of Paris - Roland-Garros, Parc

Japanese teenager Tokito Oda made wheelchair tennis history by becoming the youngest men’s singles world number one and Grand Slam champion at the age of 17 after beating Britain’s Alfie Hewett in French Open final.

Hewett was seeking to win his fourth men’s singles title at Roland Garros but was swept aside by Oda

claiming her 40th win in 55 outings against her Japanese rival.De Groot admitted that she was delighted Roland

Garros had increased the wheelchair draws to 16 players this year."

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was among the guests on the final day of the French Open in Paris, where Serbia's Novak Djokovic broke the record for the most men's singles Grand Slam titles.

Djokovic's straight-sets victory against Norway's Casper Ruud gave him his third victory at Roland Garros

disciplinary action, and a warning from French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to avoid a repeat.3ème Roland-Garros

coming from behind to beat Canada's Leylah Fernandez and the US' Taylor Townsend 1-6, 7-6, 6-1.Stade Roland

Garros is due to host the Olympic tennis tournaments at Paris 2024, as well as the final phases of boxing.Djokovic's

members of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission for Paris 2024 were invited to Roland

Garros to watch the tennis.