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The first medals will be handed out at the Paris Olympics on Saturday after the 2024 Games were officially launched with a spectacular four-hour, rain-soaked ceremony along the river Seine.

The lingering applause at the Trocadéro suggested the crowd loved it and the Olympic Games opening ceremony delivered a thrilling final hour in the rain

The Parisian rain showed there is a good reason why Olympic opening ceremonies are held in stadiums

IOC President Bach assures comprehensive security measures for upcoming Games in France, with global intelligence support.

Conflict is easy to find at an Olympics that have been billed as a global unifying force

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 sprinters John Carlos and Peter Norman essentially winged their way into what would become one of the most…

On Friday the Olympics swing into full action, but can the spectacle still drown the detail, cost, greed and waste?

The feuding this week among officials in the Olympics, the anti-doping world and the United States government over eradicating drugs from sports is hardly new

In the early 20th century, the father of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, wrote that the competition ought to be “free from political interference”. Yet it’s often hard for champions to escape world affairs. Take the example of Algerian judoka, Fethi Nourine, who withdrew in from the Tokyo…

France has received conditional approval to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee gave the green light on Wednesday, stipulating that the country's next prime minister must provide a financial "guarantee" to host the Games in the French Alps.

Any relief at moving back to normality has disappeared but at least there will be fans (and no bears) at the Paris Olympics