After the Taliban took power three years ago, the Afghanistan women's cricket team effectively disbanded. Former players have since been urging officials to help them form a refugee cricket team based in Australia.

The main risk to the Paris Games due to France's current political instability is the potential for public disturbances, which could strain the already stretched security services, a former International Olympic Committee executive told AFP on Monday.

Paris 2024 has announced the grand opening of its flagship megastore for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games. The store is located at Place Clemenceau, 75008 Paris, on the iconic Champs-Elysees.

Before each Taekwon-Do competition is a joint meeting of all Umpires, the most responsible for applying the Tournament regulations for a fair competition.

GAMMA World Gold medallist Zoe Nowicki secured an unanimous decision victory in her professional debut at Invicta Fighting Championships 55 in Kansas City on Friday. Her win came against amateur MMA world champion and multiple medallist Josiane Oliveira, who was also making her professional debut.

Fencer Olga Kharlan is aiming to bring "hope" to her nation amidst the ongoing war in her country, with the Ukrainian relishing the chance to participate at the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris.

It was quite a foregone conclusion, but the four-time Olympic gold medallist put a bow on it on Sunday, as she aced the US trials in Minneapolis and will lead another American bid for glory in Paris 2024, just three years removed from her disconcerting case of the ‘twisties’ during the Tokyo Games.

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is undergoing a modern transformation as it prepares to reopen on 8 December after being ravaged by fire in 2019. Construction will continue during the upcoming Olympics in the French capital, with the Games taking place from 26 July until 11 August.

The last time she raced the 400metres hurdles at Hayward Field in the 2022 championships, the New Jersey native set the world record at 50.68 seconds. On Sunday, she smashed her own mark by clocking three hundredths of a second less in order to book her spot at the Paris 2024 Games.

After imposing her will on the 100metre race on Friday, the Jamaican sprinter won the 200m final on Sunday at the Caribbean country’s athletics trials and set up her sprint double gold bid at the upcoming 2024 Games.

With the Olympic Games only weeks away, Australia's Taekwondo athletes are in the final stages of preparations before heading to Paris.

The star pole vaulter who smashed the 21-year-old record by the great Sergey Bubka will miss out on the 2024 Olympics on his home turf after failing to achieve the qualifying height in his final chance at the French championships on Sunday.

World Taekwondo maintained its excellence in the Fifth ASOIF Governance Review with an A2 ranking in three consecutive editions, and ranked 12th out of 32 International Sports Federations (IFs) in the Olympic Programme.

The Paris Olympics are set to cost almost nine billion euros according to the latest estimates and the impact on the economy is likely to be more "psychological" than financial. Ahead of the 26 July opening ceremony on the Seine, ministers and observers are juggling the figures to estimate the costs and benefits of the sporting spectacle.