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Victor Wembanyama will play his first game with France since the national team's loss to the US in the 2024 Olympics final on Thursday, facing Serbia. The San Antonio Spurs center is taking on new responsibilities in a significantly revised squad.
After failing a doping test on June 22, Australian former world number 13 player Nick Kyrgios was provisionally suspended from August 4. He said he took 'full responsibility' for having made 'a huge mistake,' calling it a 'wake-up call.'
AS Monaco said the 33-year-old would leave one year before his contract was scheduled to end. In his season there, the midfielder played only six matches.
Vieira's main mission will be to revitalize the team after Senegal's bruising loss to Belgium in the last 32 of the World Cup.
FIFA fired its chief operations officer on Monday after he opposed a plan by the organization's president to create a semi-private subsidiary.
Le Monde has learned that FIFA terminated the contract of chief operating officer Kevin Lamour on Monday. At the end of July, he had issued a scathing statement against his boss, Gianni Infantino.
Paris Saint-Germain were unable to equalize the first-half goal of Lens in the match for the French Champions' Trophy in the northern French city on Sunday.
Four-time Olympic champion Léon Marchand, who had already won gold in the 200m butterfly final at the European championships in Paris, won by a margin of 1.32 seconds in the 400m freestyle, an event he rarely races.
Sudden and spectacular, the pressure on the FIFA president comes only after a decade of misconduct and impunity.
In an interview with Le Monde, climber Alain Robert reflects on the sensation that drives him to risk his life by scaling the world's tallest skyscrapers without any ropes.
The French four-time Olympic gold medallist set the world's best time of the year to claim his first continental title.
While the international federation reinstated Russian and Belarusian swimmers in April, the European governing body insisted on maintaining neutrality criteria for the competition as the war in Ukraine continues.
Fenway Sports Group, which has owned Liverpool since 2010, said it would retain majority ownership and control of the club. Reports said the consortium, led by British-Indian businessman Amit Bhatia, is acquiring roughly one-third of Liverpool.
According to a working document seen by Le Monde, UEFA, CONCACAF and the AFC want to change FIFA's presidency into a rotating, representative and ceremonial role with a 'fixed two-year term,' modeled on the Swiss Confederation.
The six-time Olympic medallist, who has not competed since 2024, announced on Thursday that he was retiring from swimming at the age of 35.
The French Football Federation published the initial list of staff set to work alongside the new manager, including the former goalkeeper.
Paris Saint-Germain, which won back-to-back 2025 and 2026 Champions League trophies, beat Aston Villa 2-1 on Wednesday.
One of the most successful teams in NBA history is being sold to former Disney CEO Bob Iger and investor Joshua Kushner, the brother of US President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
The secretary general of FIFA has expressed his support for the controversial president of world football's governing body. This is inconsistent with an internal email Grafström sent on August 4, in which he distanced himself from the plan to create a commercial company – a project he had previously approved.
France and Léon Marchand took silver on the men's 4x200m freestyle relay.
The Dutch rider claimed the second Tour de France title of her career on Sunday. In a race that remained undecided until the very end, she relied on the unwavering support of her FDJ United-Suez teammates.
The five-time champion player for the Boston Celtics and revolutionary basketball coach spent nearly 50 years with the NBA.
The 24-year-old from Toulouse is set to be the star of the continental competition opening Monday in Paris. But an injury in June, followed by a relapse, complicated his preparations.
The Dutch 2023 laureate won her second Tour de France, with Kasia Niewiadoma of Poland and Elisa Long Borghini of Italy completing the podium.
The new head coach of the French national football team embodies a counter-narrative to the dominant French story, serving as an antidote to far-right ideas, and also challenges some of the assumptions held by parts of the left, writes former ambassador Karim Amellal.
The head of Spain's top football league, often at the forefront of clashes with global football authorities, delivers a damning assessment of the situation at FIFA in an interview with Le Monde.