French Parliamentarians are facing pressure to cut state subsidies to sporting organisations as the race for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics is poised to enter its final year.

Paris 2024 have hailed the French team after they achieved a record medal haul at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Budapest, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome have all been "reminded" that they have broken the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) strict bidding rules by inviting media to their national hospitality houses during Rio 2016.

François Hollande, the French President, is expected to meet his International Olympic Committee (IOC) counterpart Thomas Bach on the morning of the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony here next Friday (August 5).

Paris airport authority manager Groupe ADP has signed on as an official supplier of the French capital’s bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it was announced today.

Paris 2024 Athletes’ Committee co-chair Teddy Riner has been named as the French flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next week.

Paris 2024 have reiterated their commitment to delivering a "fantastic" Paralympic Games should they be awarded the hosting rights.

Euro 2016 showed France's ability to stage events, officials from Paris' bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have claimed.

A week ago, as British political life descended into ever greater depths of weirdness and Euro 2016 geared up for the semi-final matches, the conclusions of a report that could have an important bearing on Paris’s chances of hosting the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics started to circulate.

Paris 2024 has announced the launch of a "Generation 2024 Committee" as part of the French capital's efforts to use their Olympic and Paralympic bid to engage with youngsters.

Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has praised the “unity” of the Paris 2024 bid, and its state of readiness in terms of potential Olympic venues and sites.

The threshold is a clear one, between marble tiles and parquet flooring. The door stands ajar, its brass nameplate proclaiming “Salle Greard.” On June 23 1894, Baron Pierre De Coubertin and a group of invited delegates walked in over this threshold deep within the Sorbonne University buildings and, later in the day, out over it. During which time the International Olympic Committee, and the modern Games, were born.

Paris' efforts to secure the hosting rights to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have received support from international airliner Air France, which has today become the official supplier of the bid.

Paris underlined its positive desire to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games here today with messages that came from the very heart of the Olympic Movement.

It’s Olympic Day today. It should really be called Olympic Birthday as it commemorates the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on June 23 in 1894.