With five days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, but more than 1.75 million tickets have already been sold for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, including more than 700,000 since the start of the Olympic Games, with many events on the verge of selling out.

The Paris Paralympic Games will take over from 28 August to 8 September, aiming for a seamless transition with minimal changes. To achieve this, the organisers have opted to hold most of the events at the same venues used during the Olympics, striving for a tone of inclusivity and accessibility.

The sprint events in athletics have been dominated by Jamaican and American athletes. An outstanding crop of athletes including a certain Mr Bolt have made yellow, green and black three common colours in the 100m & 400m races. In Paris, however, they came up short of their usual expectations.

The 33rd Olympic Games of the modern era ended with a Closing Ceremony at the Stade de France in Paris in front of 80,000 spectators. The event was celebrated enthusiastically across the French capital for those who couldn't see it in person.

Former French minister of Culture Jack Lang used to say that “Paris is always Paris, Berlin is never Berlin” which might sound like a ‘boutade’ of sorts, as the locals like to say, but also serves an apt description for the French capital, who bid ‘adieu’ to a transformative 2024 Games on Sunday.

Kevin Mayer, the current decathlon world record holder, has questioned his participation in these Olympic Games. The athlete revealed on Tuesday that he currently only has a 10% chance of competing at the Stade de France due to a significant hamstring injury he suffered on 7 July.

Men's Rugby Sevens is the first team sport to be decided in Paris 2024. And the result was what the tournament organisers had hoped for. France beat Fiji, who had won gold at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, in the final.

The day before the official opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Olympic Torch Relay visited Seine-Saint-Denis. The area, which will host Olympic and Paralympic events, saw more than 200 torchbearers from Noisy-le-Grand to Parc Georges Valbon, including celebrities such as Thuram and Ourahmoune.

Rugby sevens, a fast-paced and thrilling variation of traditional rugby, has become a popular fixture at the Olympics. Introduced to the program at Rio 2016, rugby sevens has quickly captivated audiences with its dynamic play and exciting format. Here's all you need to know about the game.

With the Opening Ceremony on 26 July and some competitions starting the day before, athletics will be at the heart of the second week of Paris 2024, with great battles and great moments to prove once again why it is called the 'King Sport' of the Olympic Games.

With the Paris Olympics opening ceremony fast approaching, Hugh Robertson, who led the London 2012 Games, emphasises its importance, after telling AFP it "sets the tone" for the entire event.

In the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach penned an Op-Ed that appeared in three major French newspapers: L’Equipe, Le Parisien, and Ouest-France over the weekend. The piece explores the upcoming Games and its significance.

France rugby captain Antoine Dupont will chase Olympic gold later this month after being named on Monday to the 12-man rugby sevens squad for the Paris Games by the French Rugby Federation (FFR).

More than 30 venues of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are very similar. That’s because most were constructed well before Paris became a candidate to host the upcoming Games, which get underway from 26 July until 11 August.

China's women and South Africa's men teams secured the twelfth and final places to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Rugby Sevens by winning the World Rugby Sevens Repechage in Monaco on Sunday.