The IOC faces growing criticism over plans to let Russians and Belarusians into the Paris Olympics. But athletes from Belarus who openly oppose President Alexander Lukashenko risk being left behind, whatever happens.

Sport is strictly forbidden for women in Afghanistan, so hundreds fled into exile. Now they are demanding a direct line to the IOC with hopes of competing at the Paris Games in 2024. What are their chances?

Eleven Israeli athletes and one policeman died in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack. Germany reached a compensation deal with the bereaved families last year.

The 16th edition of the Special Olympics World Games are set to open in Berlin. DW explains what it is, how it differs from the Paralympics and what makes the event so unique.

As the Special Olympics looks to change the attitude towards disabilities, its athletes are inspiring people the world over. Those include stars from the sport's world like Dirk Nowitzki and Lewis Hamilton.

French investigators searched the headquarters of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games organizing committee as part of two probes into suspected corruption.

Germany hopes the success of the 2023 Special Olympics leaves a lasting impact and boosts the country's chances of potentially hosting the 2036 Olympics and Paralympics.

More than a dozen members of delegations at the Special Olympics in Berlin have disappeared, rather than return to their home countries, German authorities have said.

Swimming in the Seine in the French capital has been banned since 1923, but Paris authorities say that will change soon.

China's Wang Yi, Russia's Sergey Lavrov and the US' Antony Blinken, and Southeast Asian ministers are expected at talks. Beijing and Washington have arranged several sets of relatively high-level talks in recent weeks.

From infrastructure to security, transport to ticketing, Paris still has a series of challenges ahead before it hosts the world's biggest sporting event from July 26, 2024. One year before the Games begin, FRANCE 24 sat down with Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Organising Committee, who also discussed the importance of the highly awaited opening ceremony on the River Seine.

When French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympics in 1894, he imagined the Games as an occasion for world peace as countries came together in amicable sporting events.