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Paris Olympics embraces modern life with age old burdens

France, July 26 -- Just a few weeks before the start of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, the American former athlete Tommie Smith was in the French capital and inter alia recounting how he and fellow sprin... Read More


France's women's football team kick off bid for first Olympic crown

France, July 25 -- France's women's football team launch their bid on Thursday for a first Olympic title against Colombia in Lyon. The hosts will also take on reigning Olympic champions Canada and Ne... Read More


Tennis star Murray to play final tournament at Paris Olympics

France, July 23 -- Former world number one Andy Murray revealed on Tuesday that the Paris Olympic singles tournament would be the final competition of his career. The 37-year-old Briton, who won the ... Read More


Rising French tennis star outwits Zverev to lift Hamburg Open

France, July 22 -- French tennis player Arthur Fils entered the top 20 in the world rankings for the first time on Monday following his impressive surge to the Hamburg Open title. The 20-year-old, wh... Read More


Olympic blues as closures kick in to set the Seine for Paris 2024 opening gala

France, July 19 -- Large sections of Paris were closed off on Friday as Olympic organisers ramped up the preparations for the spectacular opening ceremony along the river Seine on 26 July. Six kilome... Read More


Paris Olympic organisers calm fears over security breaches in global IT meltdown

France, July 19 -- Olympic Games organisers in Paris calmed fears on Friday that a global IT glitch had compromised sensitive security data just over a week from the planned lavish opening ceremony al... Read More


Dance off: Performers threaten to pull out of Paris Olympics opening ceremony

France, July 19 -- Key sections of the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were in jeopardy on Friday after a performing artists union announced a boycott of the extravaganza along the r... Read More


Macron ally Braun-Pivet re-elected as speaker of France's National Assembly

France, July 19 -- The rancour in French politics showed no sign of abating on Friday following the re-election of Yael Braun-Pivet as speaker of the National Assembly. Braun-Pivet, who held the post... Read More


France rugby stars accused of rape placed under house arrest in Argentina

France, July 18 -- France international rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou were on Thursday facing a second day under house arrest as they await trial for on charges of raping a 39-year-old wo... Read More


Fifa supremos review anti-French abuse in video after Argentina Copa America win

France, July 18 -- World football's governing body Fifa launched an inquiry on Thursday into a video on social media that showed several members of Argentina's Copa America-winning squad singing a fou... Read More