NBA and Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic has secured a spot in Serbia's preliminary 16-player squad for the upcoming Paris Olympics. The announcement came from the Basketball Federation of Serbia, who unveiled the list curated by Serbian national team coach Svetislav Pesic on their official website this Monday.

Swimming champion Sam Williamson has issued a warning to his breaststroke rivals with an impressive performance at Australia's Paris 2024 trials. The 26-year-old manage to record the fastest time by an Australian 100m breaststroker in over a decade, finishing at 58.95 seconds at Brisbane Aquatic Centre on Monday. 

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.

The story of the Aalborg HB left-back retiring from the Handball Champions League, the only title he still lacks, had already been written. Though reality outstripped fiction. His shot at the final buzzer of the final match against Barcelona hit the crossbar. It wasn't meant to be. At 36, he will no longer play in the competition. Hansen's next appearance will be at Paris 2024.

Struggling French tech group Atos, an Olympics partner and key French defense contractor, announced on Tuesday that it had chosen a takeover offer from a consortium led by its major shareholder, Onepoint.

Efforts by Paris 2024 organisers to make this year's Olympic Games the greenest in history are being challenged by athletes who plan to bring their own air conditioning to the Olympic Village, after the announcement of a sustainability plan that does not include air conditioning in athletes' areas.

The 2024 World Rowing Cup series finals will be taking place in Poznan, Poland, from 14-16 June and will determine the overall winner with only 10 points separating the Netherlands and Great Britain. The event will be the last international racing opportunity before the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and some nations —such as Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Romania— are using the regatta to test their LA 2028 hopefuls at the international level, according to World Rowing in a press release. 

Three years after retiring from professional boxing, on 28 July, the multiple world champion, Manny Paquiao, will step back into the ring. He will face Japanese martial artist Chihiro Suzuki in Tokyo. A potential welterweight title fight with Mario Barrios is still on the cards, "There's still a lot to discuss," Paquiao said.

Bill May was vying to be the first man to compete in artistic swimming in this upcoming Olympic Games in Paris. After a rule change in December 2022 by World Aquatics opened the door for men to compete in the sport, allowing up to two per National Olympic Team.

Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz fought hard to beat Alexander Zverev in the Roland Garros final, triumphing in five sets. Rafael Nadal's successor won his first French Open title and his third Grand Slam, becoming the youngest player to win all three surfaces at major tournaments.

With 46 days to go before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, French President Emmanuel Macron has called snap parliamentary elections in France this Sunday, after the far-right National Rally (RN) party won almost a third of the vote in the country's European Parliament elections. 

After a month-long journey across mainland France, the Olympic Torch Relay arrived in French Guiana on Sunday to start the Ocean Relay, becoming the first French overseas territory to welcome it for the first time in its history.

Chase Budinger will make his Olympic debut this summer in Paris, qualifying with his partner Miles Evans after passing their countrymen Theo Brunner and Trevor Crabb in international rankings last month. The 36-year-old small forward who has played with the Phoenix Suns, Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Houston Rockets, retired from basketball in 2017 to play pro volleyball.

Dutch swimmer Arno Kamminga, a double Olympic medallist at Tokyo 2020, is returning to the pools in excellent form after suffering illness and burnout shortly after his success at the 2021 Olympic Games.