The French Minister for Sport and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, has assured that the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony has a contingency plan in place and has ruled out any "terrorist threat" at this stage.

A recording of International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, the victim of a prank call from someone claiming to be a senior official of the African Union Commission, has been posted online. 

Raja Sapta Oktohari, chairperson of the National Olympic Committee of Indonesia, announced that the committee is actively investigating the possibility of Indonesia hosting the 2036 Olympic Games.

Paris 2024 boasts that it will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games on an equal footing. The village for both events will be the same, they will be held under the same logo, the mascot is almost identical -the Paralympic mascot has a prosthesis to represent its athletes - the medals are also the same, the ticketing system, transport and TV coverage are the same, but not everything will be the same.

Singapore has followed Malaysia in declining to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, adding to the uncertainty surrounding the future of the multi-sport event.

The Olympic marina in Marseille, which will host the sailing events of the Paris Games this summer, was inaugurated on Tuesday in the presence of the president of the organising committee, Tony Estanguet, who praised a facility designed for the "top level" and "to inspire new vocations."

Joseph Schooling, the only athlete to beat Michael Phelps to win Singapore's first and only Olympic gold medal at Rio 2016, has announced his retirement from competitive swimming.

Ben Binyamin was a professional footballer who was left for dead by Hamas militants when they stormed Israel on 7 October 2023, but after extensive rehabilitation he is now a defender for the Israeli national amputee team.

The Venezuelan National SAMBO Championships were held in the state of Aragua from 21-24 March. More than 150 athletes from 15 states of the country participated in the tournament. Both men's and women's competitions were held, in both Sport and Combat SAMBO.

As part of the celebration of International Women's Day on 8 March, the ITF joined the global campaign #InspireInclusion. The idea is to help raise awareness of the importance of inclusion and gender equality, and to create environments that ensure women have equal opportunities to participate at all levels of the organisation.

In its quest to achieve the best possible result at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Team Mexico have held a training camp in France ahead of the all-important Games.

The President of the Nigeria Taekwondo Federation, Abdullahi Saidu, has hailed the performance of the athletes at the 13th African Games in Ghana. Nigerian taekwondo athletes won a total of 6 medals at the Games, including one gold, one silver and four bronze.

Although still a taboo subject for some, significant progress is being made in studying the influence of the menstrual cycle on the psychophysical performance of elite and Olympic athletes, who are beginning to be included in scientific studies in this area.

CAS upholds the IOC's decision of 22 June 2023 to withdraw recognition from the IBA, which the organisation appealed against on 27 June 2023. According to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, after hearing both parties in November, "the IBA did not meet the conditions set by the IOC for recognition".

The latest Para Table Tennis Rankings for April have confirmed the qualification of 109 athletes for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.