The Paris 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony will take place on Sunday 11 August. The Stade de France in Saint-Denis will host a two-and-a-half hour ceremony full of surprises from 21:00 to 23:30. Many details of the show are being kept under wraps. It will retrace the history of the Games and feature performances by world-famous acrobats, dancers and singers.

Kirsty Burrows, head of the IOC's Safe Sport Unit, filed a complaint of cyber-bullying on Sunday 4 August. The British executive claimed to have received "hate messages following a press conference she gave in defence of Imane Khelif, the target of a wave of transphobic hatred on the internet," the prosecutor's office said.

Sebastian Coe has hit out at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for not having a policy to deal with the current controversy over gender eligibility in Olympic boxing. "It's simple: have a policy," he said.

Spain's Carolina Marín was greeted by dozens of fans at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport last Monday. The athlete arrived "devastated" after being forced to withdraw from the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics due to injury. It was later confirmed that she had suffered a new rupture of her anterior cruciate ligament.

The International Olympic Committee said the gender testing of boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting was "so flawed that it is impossible to deal with". IOC spokesman Mark Adams strongly defended Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Chinese Taipei, criticising the sport's governing body, the International Boxing Association, which said the athletes failed unspecified eligibility tests for women's competition.

Chinese Taipei's Lin Yu-ting and Algeria's Imane Khelif, both at the centre of a significant boxing gender eligibility controversy, have guaranteed themselves at least bronze medals in their respective categories at the Paris Olympics.

Spanish badminton player Carolina Marin, Olympic champion at Rio 2016, had to withdraw from the badminton semi-finals at the Paris Olympics after suffering a right knee injury while dominating China's Bing Jiao He, ending her chances at the Games in a cruel way.

The IOC president defended boxers Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan amid controversy over their gender, stating that they both met the "clear definition of a woman" and underlined that "we are not going to engage in a politically motivated culture war".

Women's and sports organisations from around the world have sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) urging it not to allow Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting to compete in women's boxing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The boxing scandal at the Paris 2024 Olympics is a direct slap in the face for the International Olympic Committee. Algeria's Imane Khelif, one of two Olympic boxers to be disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for failing a gender test, won her debut bout after her opponent was forced to retire just 46 seconds into the fight.

A heavyweight boxing match at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has sparked heated controversy in Italy. After Italy's Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine lost to Uzbekistan's Lazizbek Mullojonov, the president of the Italian Boxing Federation (IBF), Flavio D'Ambrosi, expressed widespread outrage and lashed out at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the refereeing system.

After consulting various athletes and sports federations, the International Friendship Association officially confirmed that the competition will be held in 2025 in order to ensure “a nice event in the countries that are part of the alliance with Russia.”

Teahupo'o, Tahiti, the venue for surfing events, was the scene of a photo that will go down in the history of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Gabriel Medina floats after a trick and seems to fly over the water, with the board still attached to his left ankle and parallel to his body, after scoring a historic 9.90, the highest score in Olympic history on a single wave. The Brazilian qualified for the quarter-finals.

The International Olympic Committee elected former Moroccan athlete Nawal El Moutawakel and Argentine Gerardo Werthein as its new vice-presidents at the 142nd Session held in Paris before the 2024 Games, supposedly the last for the German president.