Olympic silver medallist Pavlo Tymoshchenko believes the International Modern Pentathlon Union’s (UIPM) 90-minute format proposed for the Paris 2024 Olympics will create "another wave of confusion" and make the sport "even more incomprehensible".
UK Sport has announced a new leadership programme to double the representation of female coaches in the Olympic and Paralympic high-performance community by Paris 2024.
Club Paris 2024 has launched a new initiative for runners, offering race entries for the mass-participation public marathon to run alongside the elite marathon at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Seven French cities have made final teleconference presentations to the Paris 2024 Organising Committee seeking the six remaining chances of hosting matches in the Olympic football tournament.
Weightlifting is not at risk of losing its place on the Olympic Games programme, despite the crisis at the global governing body, senior officials at the umbrella organisation for Summer Olympic sports have claimed.
The Executive Board of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has approved a new format for the Paris 2024 Olympics, which will now feature a 90-minute event.
Paris 2024 will encourage youngsters to get active for at least 30 minutes per day during next year's Olympic and Paralympic Week.
Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games premium partner EDF has announced the addition of 15 French athletes to its team of ambassadors.
Breakdancing star "Bumblebee" has said making history is his motivation with the sport poised to make its Olympic debut at Paris 2024.
The French University Sports Federation (FFSU) has launched a consultation on its Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic legacy plan.
France has launched a new high-performance plan called Ambition Bleue, or "Blue Ambition".
National governing bodies in Britain have reportedly expressed concern over their potential funding for Paris 2024 after the Government scrapped long-term spending plans amid the coronavirus pandemic.
International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) President Klaus Schormann believes a 90-minute event can have a "transformative effect on the profile and popularity" of the sport, after the Executive Board approved the format hoped to feature at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Paris 2024 has held its first Terre de Jeux Forum, billed as an opportunity for the Organising Committee to outline benefits available to areas which have been given the label.
A motorway interchange in the Paris commune of Saint-Denis has been given the green light for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, despite local residents protesting its construction.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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