Mobile phones pinged throughout Paris on Monday and alerted residents of a critically important message from France’s Interior minister under the alarming title “extremely serious alert." However, it was just a reminder regarding the implementation of a strict security perimeter for Paris 2024.

Numerous top-tier athletes celebrated their participation in the French Diving Open, a three-day event that also served as an official test for the new Olympic Aquatics Centre in Paris.

The X account of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra,the French Minister for Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, was hacked on Friday 11 May. The profile has since been restored.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that its headquarters, the Olympic House, has been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum v4.1 certification for its sustainable performance in operations and maintenance.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has expressed its deep concern following the arrest and dismissal of the Director General of the Tunisian National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) for trying to deal with the consequences of ANAD's non-compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code.

Still on the Mediterranean coast, the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch visited a new region on Monday. With no clouds in the sky, the torch illuminated the main towns of Millau, Sète and Montpellier, all of which are located in the southern part of the Occitania region. 

This year's Cannes Film Festival red carpet will shine even brighter, as the Olympic torch will be among the stars to ascend the famous steps this 21 May, carried by five-time French Paralympic athlete Arnaud Assoumani, Agence France-Presse reported Monday.

With the Olympics less than three months away and the aftermath of the Chinese doping scandal still lingering, worldwide suspicions about an uneven playing field won’t die down; but it’s in the United States, where the news broke, that the World Anti-Doping Agency faces the biggest pushback.

The Parisian subsoil, from the famous catacombs to the sewers and metro tunnels, is coming out of the shadows as the Olympic Games (26 July - 11 August) approach, along with the safety requirements that go with them. 

The fencer Ysaora Thibus, suspended after a positive anti-doping test, will face perhaps the most important battle of her career to keep dreaming of Paris 2024, defending herself before the Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Fencing Federation.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially announced a new collaboration with the Qatar Foundation to promote equality, diversity and inclusion through sport last week. The organisations signed the agreement 29 April in Doha, Qatar and together will be implementing community projects in 10 countries across Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

The President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf, has issued a statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a field of research in computer science that is growing and will continue to do so in the coming months and years.

The fourth leg of the Olympic Torch Relay has made another stop in the Bouches-du-Rhône. After the arrival of the Olympic Torch and the first stage in Marseille, other key sites in the region were highlighted on the way to Arles, the host city of the stage.

French authorities are preparing to combat a wave of scams targeting the millions of visitors expected during this summer's Olympic Games and Paralympics, they have said.

Tunisian President Kais Saied responds to the controversial incident Friday at the Tunisian Open Masters championship in Radès —where the country's flag was covered in response to sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)— by dissolving the country's national swimming federation's board.