French International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Guy Drut has said the country could bid for the 2030 Winter Games with a combined effort from Rhône-Alpes and the Southern Alps.

French International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Guy Drut has claimed that "athletes should not suffer from the stupidities of their political leaders" in backing Russian and Belaruisian participation at Paris 2024. 

The beleaguered President of the French Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), Brigitte Henriques, has chosen to "take a rest" prior to a potentially critical Board meeting on October 12 and temporarily delegated her responsibilities.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Guy Drut has expressed his concerns over the "dramatic" infighting at the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF).

The decision of Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet and chief executive Etienne Thobois to deliver their progress report to the International Olympic Committee Session predominantly in English has drawn criticism from French IOC member Guy Drut.

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has outlined key areas where savings can be made in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, while defending the core "DNA" of a project labelled "obsolete" last month by former French Sports Minister Guy Drut.

When Guy Drut, one of three French International Olympic Committee (IOC) members, announced last month that the original shape of the Paris 2024 Games was now, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, "obsolete, outdated, out of touch with reality", it is fair to say that numerous eyebrows were raised within Olympic circles.

A reluctance from the vast majority of International Olympic Committee (IOC) members to engage with the media in any way is the source of long-running frustration among the Olympic press corps.

The Olympic Games has become a magnificent, mega-contradiction: humanity’s global festival embracing every nation and race, great or small, gathering both the elite and humble in a social village without barriers, yet simultaneously a grotesque economic and extravagant self-indulgence, stretching host cities to breaking point in staging 33 concurrent World Championships.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Guy Drut has said the coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity to "reinvent" the Olympic Games, calling on the event to be more "sober and responsible."

The rain just held off and the flame is on its way to Pyeongchang 2018.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) vice-president Sergey Bubka and current chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission Claudia Bokel are two of the headline names on the list of speakers for the upcoming World Olympians Forum in Moscow, it has been announced.