Paris is aiming to host the most sustainable Olympics of all time in 2024, reducing the Games' carbon footprint by half compared to London 2012. It is also introducing new, enhanced security measures.

Olympic officials approved Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete neutrally in the Paris Olympics.

Bedbugs have become a nightmare haunting France for weeks with the government forced to step in to calm an increasingly anxious nation that will host the Olympic Games in just over nine months — a prime venue for infestations of the crowd-loving insects

With less than a year to go until France hosts the 2024 Olympic Games, thousands of job vacancies remain unfilled, including those for security personnel. The country's public employment agency, Pôle Emploi, has subsequently embarked on an ambitious programme to recruit 15,000 security officers. But it is being accused of summoning job seekers without properly considering their profiles.

The next Olympic host nation has been embroiled in a debate around head coverings, even though no high-level French athletes wear them. It has become an increasingly thorny subject in a number of sports.