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Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian defender #05 Marquinhos after scoring PSG's first goal during the UEFA Champions League play-off second leg football match against AS Monaco at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on February 25, 2026. FRANCK FIFE / AFP Paris Saint-Germain came from behind and then survived a late scare against 10-man Monaco, drawing 2-2 in the second leg of their Champions League knockout phase play-off tie on Wednesday, February 25, to reach the last 16 with a 5-4 aggregate victory. The defending European champions came from two behind to win 3-2 in the principality in last week's first leg, a game in which Monaco had a man sent off early in the second half. The scenario this time was similar, with French international Maghnes Akli...

Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior with coach Alvaro Arbeloa and Aurélien Tchouaméni as the match was stopped due to racist chants, UEFA Champions League first leg playoffs , Benfica v Real Madrid, Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal, February 17, 2026. RODRIGO ANTUNES / REUTERS Real Madrid midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni said his team's 2-1 win against Benfica on Wednesday, February 25, to reach the Champions League last 16 was a victory for "everyone who is against racism." The Frenchman is referring to the first leg of the play-off tie, which Madrid won 1-0 last week, which was marred by alleged racial abuse aimed at Vinicius Junior by Benfica's Gianluca Prestianni. "We didn't play our best match of the season, that's for sure. But...

With four years to go before the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games open in France, and just three and a half years before the expected delivery of construction projects, consultations with developers are ongoing.

PSG's Achraf Hakimi reacts during the French League One football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Metz in Paris, France, February 21, 2026. EMMA DA SILVA / AP Moroccan international and Paris Saint-Germain footballer Achraf Hakimi is to stand trial charged with raping a young woman, his lawyer and a French prosecutor said on Tuesday, February 24. In February 2023, a woman then aged 24 told police in Val-De-Marne southeast of Paris that Hakimi had raped her. The 27-year-old footballer denies any wrongdoing. "Today, a rape accusation is enough to justify a trial, even though I contest it and everything proves that it is false," he wrote on X on Tuesday. "I await this trial calmly, which will allow the truth to come out publicly." ...

Gold medalists Emily Harrop of France and Thibault Anselmet of France celebrate on the podium in Bormio, Italy, on February 21, 2026. ANGELIKA WARMUTH / REUTERS Emily Harrop and Thibault Anselmet combined to win gold for France in the mixed relay event of Olympic ski mountaineering in Bormio on Saturday, February 21. Harrop and Anselmet clocked a winning time of 26 minutes and 57.44 seconds in the relay, consisting of two ascents plus a section on foot with skis attached to the backpack for each ascent and two descents. The Swiss duo of Marianne Fatton and Jon Kistler claimed silver, 11.86 seconds behind, with Spain's Ana Alonso Rodriguez and Oriol Cardona Coll rounding out the podium. Harrop, born in the French Alps to Engli...

Océane Michelon, of France, celebrates winning gold in the women's 12.5-kilometer mass start biathlon race at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Anterselva, Italy, Saturday, February 21, 2026. MOSA'AB ELSHAMY / AP In the final biathlon event of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, France's Océane Michelon overcame a missed target in the final shooting stage in the 12.5-kilometer mass start race to take gold. In heavy snow and low visibility, Michelon left the range in fourth place but moved ahead on the ski trails to complete the five laps in 37 minutes, 18.1 seconds. Michelon's teammate, Julia Simon, also moved up in the final 2.5 kilometers, crossing the finish line 6.6 seconds back and securing the silver medal. Czech biathlete Tereza Vobornikova ha...

The 2026 edition of the Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy, was filled with outstanding performances.

When the first notes of Verdi's La Forza del Destino opera rang out on February 2, part of a pre-Opening Ceremony event held beneath the gilding and elaborate woodwork of La Scala theater in Milan, Cyril Linette and Edgar Grospiron put on a stoic show of solidarity. Linette, the director general of the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games organizing committee, known as COJOP, responsible for developing the 2030 Games to be held in the French Alps, and Grospiron, its president, insisted behind the scenes that the trust between them had not been broken. But this, in fact, was where the real theater began. Just as in the opera by the Italian master, tragic fate soon took hold. Barely a week after the event, and as the grand celebration of winter sports was in full swing in Milan-Cortina, ...

View of the Apollonio-Socrepes cable car, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, February 2, 2026. LISI NIESNER/REUTERS Separated from the rest of Italy by high mountain peaks, Livigno is a small slice of paradise just a stone's throw from Switzerland. To reach this town, perched at 1,800 meters along a small river, travelers must cross the Foscagno Pass, which peaks at 2,291 meters. "When the whole world has seen our landscapes on TV, there will be a tidal wave," said Luca Moretti, director of the local tourist office, on the eve of the Milan Cortina Olympic Games, which conclude on Sunday, February 22. The tourism professional hoped to take advantage of this new fame by "choosing visitors who are in line with the spirit of the place. But without tipping over into overtourism," he ...

During the ice hockey match between Canada and USA at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, in Milan, on February 22, 2026 - / AFP The United States beat Canada 2-1 to win men's ice hockey gold at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, February 22, the last medal up for grabs at the Milan-Cortina Games. Jack Hughes scored the winning goal in overtime to hand the US men their first Olympic triumph since the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" win over the Soviet Union in Lake Placid. The tone for the high-stakes games was set early on when the Americans were booed when they came out for the warm-up by a crowd that appeared to be two-thirds Canadian. But chants of "USA, USA" soon rang out and they got louder when Matt Boldy gave the Americans a 1-0 lead in the firs...