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As France’s sports budget faces cuts, are Olympic promises being broken?

One year on from the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, French politicians and sports organisations are hitting out at the ...
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'They want us erased': Weightlifting mother resists plans to ban hijab in French competitive sport

In a speech at the Senate, France's Delegate Minister for Gender Equality and Fight against Discriminations, Aurore Berge, ...

Fact Check: Headline on Macrons’ defamation suit reported case being filed, not withdrawal

A U.S. news website’s headline that said French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte had dropped a lawsuit against ...

Donald Trump to chair new Olympic taskforce in bid to allay international visitor concerns ahead of 2028 Los Angeles Games

The US president, Donald Trump, signed an executive order on August 5 to set up a government taskforce to manage the 2028 ...
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U.S. Olympic team bars transgender women from women’s sports

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women’s sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming ...