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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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