Courts in Tokyo have handed down suspended sentences to two executives of a company which manufactured and sold mascots for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games after they were found guilty of offering bribes to a member of the Organising Committee.

The first table tennis qualification event for next year's Paralympic Games in Paris is set to begin with the Virtus Global Games in Vichy in France.

Parisian authorities are expected to amend their plans for the post Olympic use of the French capital's ring road known as the "Périphérique" after a public consultation process on retaining  "Olympic Lanes" as a priority route after Paris 2024 received a negative response.

French Railways (SNCF) have held a recruitment fair aimed at hiring more security staff to work on their networks for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Paris 2024 have named Olympic swimming gold medallists Laure Manaudou and brother Florent Manaudou as super ambassadors of the Olympic Torch Relay. 

United States blind football national team head coach Katie Smith has predicted an upsurge in interest in sport after the nation's Paralympic debut on home soil at Los Angeles 2028.

Paralympics Australia have signed what they describe as a "landmark" media deal with the Nine Entertainment Company which should ensure greater coverage for the team than ever before at Paris 2024.

Organisers have announced that tickets for the Paris 2024 Paralympics will go on sale on October 9.

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has welcomed the addition of Groupe Aeroports de Paris (Groupe ADP) as the latest official partner of the Games.

Olympic organisers have revealed that over one million tickets have been purchased in the space of 48 hours, leaving 20 sports sold out for Paris 2024, including the new discipline of breaking.

The start of the 2024 school year in the Île-de-France region could be postponed to avoid a clash with the Paralympic Games in Paris.

More than 3,000 student tenants in Île-de-France have been told that they will have to vacate their accommodation next year to make way for workers and support staff working on the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. 

Canadian Paralympic medallists Karolina Wisniewska and Josh Vander Vries are set to lead the country's athlete delegation at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games as co-Chefs de Mission.

More than 300,000 applications have been issued to become part of the volunteering team for next year’s Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, it has been announced.

The Olympic Cauldron at the Los Angeles Coliseum has burned again to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its completion in May 1923.