Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has responded to comments made by Guy Drut, the 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medallist, who said he would vote for a coalition of the right and the far right in the French legislative elections.

The cyclist is one of fourteen athletes approved by the IOC to compete under a neutral flag in Paris 2024. He has decided not to take part because of a "very busy schedule". More than half of the approved athletes are wrestlers, with the rest taking part in trampoline gymnastics and road cycling.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo acknowledged on Wednesday that the possibility of France's far-right coming to power in elections later this month is causing doubts and concerns as the French capital prepares for the Olympics.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, often referred to as the "Father of Olympism", entered the Musée Grevin last Tuesday, just a few weeks before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

France was the scene of massive demonstrations last Saturday organised by trade unions and left-wing parties to protest against the rise of the far-right, which opinion polls suggest is on the verge of taking power. Police reportedly estimated the number of demonstrators at 250,000 nationwide, with 75,000 concentrated in Paris.

It's the event of the year for France. And Emmanuel Macron believes that the French will "take the Paris Olympics into account" when they vote in the forthcoming legislative elections and will not want leaders who are "not ready at all", he told the press on the sidelines of the G7 in Bari, Italy, on Thursday.

Snap French parliamentary elections called just weeks before the start of the Paris Olympics are "extremely unsettling", the city's mayor said, as political turmoil emerged as an unexpected risk to the July-August Games.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was welcomed to the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee by its President, Tony Estanguet, on Monday. He attended the final meeting of the Paris 2024 Board of Directors before the Olympic Games.

On 1 May, the Federation officially handed Zwiebler the 2025 Strategic Plan. The decision was made at a board meeting in London. It follows Emma's successful tenure as interim CEO from 1 November 2023.

IOC President Thomas Bach met in late April with his Sudan Olympic Committee counterpart Ahmed Abu Elgasim Hashim to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country as war rages in Khartoum and Darfur.

Ukraine's acting sports minister Matviy Bidnyi says Russia has shown it "disregards the principles of Olympism" by organising the Friendship Games for September. He added that Russia is "merely attempting to use sport for its propaganda".

There is a very real possibility that boxing will be missing from the Olympic programme at Los Angeles 2028 for the first time since Stockholm 1912. Having taken charge of boxing at Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) says it will not do so again and needs a new partner international federation for boxing by early 2025.

World Boxing held its first formal meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne on Monday, as it bids to be the international federation for boxing at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.

EMF representatives, together with a group of activists, staged a protest at the entrance to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Saturday. The protest was a "call to action" to demand that Israel be banned from the Olympic Games.

The new rule was approved at the recent Executive Board meeting in Sochi and it will come into effect in June. As is already the case in men's boxing, this will equalise conditions and there will be a three-month transition period.