Music pounds through an empty hangar on the outskirts of Paris as dancers perform a few snatches of a top-secret routine in front of giant mirrors. Audiences will get to see the fruits of their labours on 26 July when the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is held in Paris.

At the weekend's Australian Olympic Trials, Shayna Jack and Meg Harris qualified for Paris 2024, while veterans such as Cate Campbell and Cody Simpson missed out on the Olympic stage.

Serbian sensation Angelina Topic first caught attention at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, where she became the youngest medalist of the event with a bronze. However, this achievement from the 18-year-old was only the start of her journey.

The Women's Volleyball qualification for Paris 2024 came to an end on 17 June with the conclusion of the preliminary round of the Women's Volleyball Nations League (VNL). In beach volleyball, Paraguay surprised everyone by qualifying for the Olympic Games for the first time.

Swimmer Carson Foster booked his place at Paris 2024 at the Indianapolis Trials after winning the 400m individual medley ahead of Tokyo 2020 gold and Rio 2016 silver medallist Chase Kalisz.

Around fifty boats that will transport delegations on the Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris took part in a full-scale rehearsal on the river on Monday morning, 39 days before the start of the Games.

Andy Murray said Sunday he was "not 100 per cent sure" he will play at the Paris Olympics despite being selected just hours earlier for his fifth Games. Murray, who has said he intends to retire later this year, was granted an International Tennis Federation (ITF) place to compete at the Games despite his lowly singles ranking of 97 because he is a former Grand Slam winner and double-Olympic champion.

Femke Bol, fresh from two golds and a bronze at the European Championships, admits she is looking forward to what she says will be a "nice battle" with American arch-rival Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone at the Paris Olympics. Bol was one of the stars of the championships in Rome, dominating her speciality event, the 400m hurdles, and going on to anchor the women's 4x400m relay team to victory while also picking up third place in the mixed relay.

Olympic freestyle gold medallist Matt Richards has urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take better care of athletes competing at the Games and their families after his parents fell victim to an online ticketing scam. Richards' mother Amanda has told the BBC that the family had been scammed out of £2,500 pounds (€2,955 euros) by a ticket website that "looked perfectly legitimate”. The swimmer has called out the IOC and its President for not providing competitor’s families with better access to tickets. 

Nineteen-year-old Emmanuel Wanyonyi claimed the men’s 800m final at the Kenyan Olympic trials Saturday, clocking in at a world-leading and personal best time of 1:41 —the third fastest in the world behind fellow Kenyans David Rudisha and Wilson Kipketer. Wanyonyi almost failed to qualify for the finals after he was tripped and fell during Friday’s semifinals, where he finished sixth. Despite struggling with a swollen leg, Wanyonyi bounced back on Saturday to secure a spot on the Olympic team. 

G7 leaders have called for an Olympic truce in the run-up to the Paris Games in the summit's final declaration. "We urge all countries to respect it, individually and collectively, as outlined in the United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted on 15 December 2023," the statement said. 

Head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, Jibril Rajoub, said Wednesday he hoped the Paris Olympic Games would bring more attention to the war in Gaza and the "Israeli occupation of the West Bank," Times of Israel reported last week. So far the country is set to participate in the Games with one athlete confirmed in taekwondo while other hopefuls are training to meet the International Olympic Committee standards to have priority for wildcards. Rajoub said in a press conference earlier this month that Palestine will have a minimum of 6-8 (athletes), three of which are likely to come from Gaza. 

Indonesian speed climber Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi is one of the country's hopes for the Paris 2024 Olympics in terms of medal prospects outside of badminton, which has contributed all eight of its medals in history.

Despite recent heavy rains, swimming in the River Seine is still the plan at the Paris Olympics after a $1.5 billion (€1.3 billion) investment to improve the water quality, according to a report Thursday by the Associated Press. Marathon swimmers and triathletes are scheduled to plunge into the cleaned-up waters after the Olympics open in July.

Spain leads the way in nationality changes approved by the IOC with two footballers, while Russia (which is banned from participating in these Games as such) loses two of its own. The IOC also approved 7 other changes ahead of the world's biggest multi-sport event, which begins in 40 days' time.