France's finance and economy ministries were raided earlier this week as part of an investigation into the 2017 transfer of Brazilian football superstar Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain, according to AFP.

Almost 20,000 military personnel will be mobilised during the Olympic Games in Paris (26 July - 11 August). This was announced on Tuesday by Pierre Schill, Chief of Staff of the French Army, at a press conference in Metz.

Mexico has withdrawn from the race to host the 2036 Olympic Games. The president of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM), Maria José Alcalá, made the announcement on Tuesday following the presentation of new sponsors for the national team, which will take part in Paris 2024.

Six members of the executive board of the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD) have resigned from their posts and demanded that elections be held to form a new board. They argued that this was required by the organisation's statutes.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines allow accredited athletes to post audio and video recordings of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) of up to two minutes per post.

For the first time in its 40-year sponsorship programme, the International Olympic Committee has signed up Anheuser-Busch InBev as a beer brand, Corona Cero, a non-alcoholic version of Corona beer.

The River Seine is a major concern for the Paris Olympic Organising Committee, with authorities rushing to clean up the riverbed for the open water swimming competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon.

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are set to begin on 26 July. With less than 200 days to go before the Games begin, organisers are working flat out to complete venues that are behind schedule.

2024 brings a lot of news for FISU America, as three countries in the region will host FISU competitions, welcoming hundreds of student athletes from around the world to compete in their sports.

The French Minister for Sport, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, has said that strict compliance with the neutrality rules laid down by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be monitored for the Russian and Belarusian athletes taking part in this summer's Olympic Games in Paris.

Laura Vilagrà, councillor for the presidency of the Generalitat, has ruled out the possibility of Catalonia bidding for the Winter Olympics, a project that was stalled after the Spanish Olympic Committee declared the negotiations with Aragon over the sharing of venues a failure, and which is now being abandoned in the context of the climate emergency.

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the French Minister for Sport, says that the organisation of the Paris Olympic Games is on schedule. In an interview with BFMTV, she highlighted the work carried out by the various players in the fields of transport and security, and confirmed the target of around twenty gold medals for French athletes.

Next year's Paris 2024 Games will serve to "unite in peaceful competition" a world in which "people are exhausted and tired of the antagonism, hostility and hatred they encounter in all areas of their lives", says Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, is not afraid of a boycott of the 2024 Olympic Games by Ukraine. However, he reiterated his call for athletes from Russia and Belarus to be allowed to take part in the Paris Games. Bach said he was satisfied with the IOC's decision.