Nearly 500 rooms, beds 2.20 meters long: the Lille Olympic Village, which will host the basketball and handball delegations during the Olympic Games, has been inaugurated in Villeneuve d'Ascq, northern France. 

After months of racing against the clock, Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the extension of line 14, connecting Saint-Denis in the north of Paris to Orly Airport, one month before the opening of the Olympic Games.

Paris Olympics organisers promised to take "unprecedented" action for the climate by halving the carbon footprint of previous Games and financing projects to reduce planet-heating greenhouse gases. But experts remain sceptical, especially after organisers dropped a pledge to set a hard limit on its overall carbon cost. About one-third of the heat-trapping emissions from the three-week spectacle is expected to come from transport, with millions of athletes, spectators, staff and journalists flying into Paris.

Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) has completed an assessment of statements made in Parliament by Andrew Wilkie alleging that the Australian Football League (AFL) conducted 'secret' and 'off the books' drug testing of players to undermine the anti-doping process.

American Scottie Scheffler is the undisputed and unchallenged leader of the world golf rankings after adding his sixth victory of the season at the Travelers, played at the TPC River Highlands in Cromwell (Connecticut, USA), while Spanish Jon Rahm, attached to the LIV, continues to fall and is already tenth.

Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov and India’s Sreeja Akula claimed the 2024 WTT Contender Lagos singles titles Sunday at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Indoor Sports Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium. The tournament's final day was a thrilling display of table tennis, as champions were crowned in the Women's Singles, Men's Singles, Women's Doubles, and Men's Doubles categories.

Andy Murray has not yet decided if he will play Wimbledon for the final time despite the ruling body of the men's tour claiming he has withdrawn from the Grand Slam tournament where he is a two-time champion.

The world champion sprinter pounded the track, then her chest in the US Olympic trials in Eugene on Saturday as she won the 100metre race and sealed her ticket for Paris 2024, where she will face stiffer competition from Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah.

The Los Angeles 2028 Olympics proposed a series of updates to its venue plan Friday, leveraging Southern California’s abundance of high-quality athletic venues to assign more sports to existing stadiums and fewer temporary ones. Track and field will now be front and centre at the Memorial Coliseum.

Back in the fold and with both eyes set on Paris 2024, the Texan sprinter did not deliver a perfect opening race in Eugene, but still managed to blow away the competition and register a convincing victory with a 10.88secs time, better than her 34 rivals spread over four races.

Three years on from the devastating loss of form and confidence that turned Simone Manuel's Tokyo Olympic dream into a nightmare, the US swim star has found "healing" at the US Olympic swimming trials. It's not a venue known for promoting peace of mind —a meeting where only the top two finishers in each final can secure the longed-for Olympic berth and some of the best swimmers in the world are destined to be disappointed.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced its Independent Observer (IO) programme teams in preparation for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. WADA’s IO programme is designed to enhance athlete and public confidence as to the quality, effectiveness and reliability of anti-doping programmes during the Games.

The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Morocco from 21 December 2025 to 18 January 2026, Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Patrice Motsepe announced after a virtual executive committee at their headquarters in Cairo on Friday evening. Originally scheduled for June and July 2025, the AFCON was moved to avoid a clash with the inaugural Club World Cup in the United States from 15 June to 13 July next year.

Reigning US Open champion Coco Gauff will lead the US tennis team at the Paris Olympics three years after she missed the Tokyo Games after contracting COVID-19. The US Tennis Association (USTA) announced its full lineup on Thursday, confirming that the world number two will be joined by fifth-ranked Jessica Pegula, Danielle Collins and Emma Navarro in women's singles.