The head of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee has vigorously defended the organisation and suitability of the French capital to host the XXXIII Olympic Games of the modern era.

WFDF President, American Robert "Nob" Rauch, sat down for an exclusive interview with InsideTheGames to talk about the success of 2023 and his future goals, including being an Olympian at the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane.

French nobleman Baron Pierre de Coubertin was such a driving force in the revival of the modern Olympics that it is tempting to consider how he would have reacted to the inclusion of the new sports for Los Angeles 2028.

With a rueful chuckle, Alex Gough, chief executive of the Professional Squash Association (PSA), admitted that in the wake of the sport's historic inclusion on the Olympic programme at Los Angeles 2028 he was put in mind of the celebrated comment by late United States tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis.

With the International Olympic Committee (IOC) starting its annual Session today in India's economic capital Mumbai, will the usual pomp and ceremony disguise the sizable challenge currently facing the Olympic Movement, or will it just be another rearranging of the deck chairs?

China's women weightlifters lead the ranking list in all five weight categories for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

By a twist of fate or maybe just some clever scheduling, the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men's World Cup begins exactly where it left off in 2019.

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge has history on his mind. At next year's Paris Olympics, this illustrious 38-year-old will seek to become the first athlete to win three marathon golds. And today he runs in the marathon that he believes will most help him towards that goal - in Berlin, naturally.

Thirty-five years ago today the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium in Seoul was set alight to mark the opening of the second summer Games to be held in Asia.

Ten years ago, to the day I was there in the Buenos Aires Hilton as Thomas Bach made his first public utterance as Olympic boss - a less than presidential but very human "Ouffff!"

Fireworks crackled in the night sky earlier this week as Azerbaijan's FK Qarabag drew 1-1 against Olimpija Ljubljana from Slovenia to secure a 3-1 aggregate victory in the UEFA Europa League playoffs.

With one year to go until the start of the Paris 2024 Paralympics on August 28, Andrew Parsons, the International Paralympic Committee President, is assessing new challenges for the Movement after what he says will be "a vital benchmark."

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe gazed up into the towering stands of the new National Athletics Centre here and declared, "this is a city that really wants us here".

When the 2023 World Athletics Championships get underway in Budapest on Saturday (August 19) it will be just over 40 years since the staging of the first edition in Helsinki.

It was a day which started with the Commonwealth Games organisers hoping to put its issues securing a host for future editions of its events to one side for the duration of Trinbago 2023 here.