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Uefa, football’s European governing body, has lifted a number of restrictions from Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain after both clubs were able to meet its Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

Global IT solutions and services provider Dimension Data has announced the roll out of a landmark data platform for this year’s Tour de France, under its partnership with the event’s organiser Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO).

Union Bordeaux Bègles (UBB) has become the first rugby union club in France’s Top 14 to secure investment from a foreign entity after striking a deal with GaveKal, the Hong Kong-based investment fund owned by Louis-Vincent Gave.

Paris formally joined the bidding circle for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games today (Tuesday), with officials stressing the strong levels of support for the effort to return the event to the French capital for the first time in 100 years.

Amaury Sport Organisation, which stages a number of leading cycling races including the Tour de France, has threatened to pull its events from the International Cycling Union (UCI) calendar due to a lack of progress in the governing body’s reform drive, according to Reuters.

The European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) body has announced that the 2016 finals of its European Rugby Cup and Champions Challenge Cup club rugby union tournaments will take place in the French city of Lyon before Scotland hosts the showpiece matches in 2017.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has confirmed the government’s support for a major expansion project of Roland Garros, the home of the French Open tennis grand slam tournament.

Gilbert Ysern, general manager of the French Tennis Federation (FFT), has said the bid from Paris to stage the 2024 edition of the Olympic Games could help drive the stalled revamp of Roland Garros, the home of the French Open tennis grand slam that takes place in the city.

French Football League (LFP) president Frederic Thiriez has defended the decision to reduce the number of teams relegated from Ligue 1 from three to two commencing with the 2015-16 season, stating the move will give investors in the domestic game “more security.”

World Rugby, the global governing body of rugby union, has awarded an event on the 2015-16 World Rugby Sevens Series to Paris, France.

Italian Serie A football clubs AS Roma and Inter Milan, along with French Ligue 1 team AS Monaco, have agreed to pay fines and reduce the size of their squads in European competition under the latest round of settlements announced through Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations.

Sailing’s World Match Racing Tour has confirmed the addition of new events in Russia and France for the 2015-16 campaign.

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) is poised to join the contenders to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup, according to Midi Olympique.

France’s Ligue 1 will become the latest top division in European football to use goal-line technology (GLT) having announced it will introduce the system from the 2015-16 season.

Clubs in France’s Top 14, regarded as the world’s richest rugby union competition, suffered a record total deficit of €24.2m ($25.5m) last season as player wages soared, according to a new report.

The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has confirmed that this year’s edition of the French Open at Roland Garros will feature a total prize purse of €28m ($30m), up 12 per cent on the previous year.