August 1 – USA and Spain continued their unbeaten runs in the final round of group games as the Women’s Olympic finals drop four teams as they head into to the quarter finals.
July 31 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has turned down Canada’s appeal against the six-point deduction for their women’s team in the wake of the drone scandal.
July 31 – In the last eight of the Olympic football tournament, France and Argentina will renew their rivalry after progressing from their groups with victories against New Zealand and Ukraine.
July 31 – A fan had to be wrestled away from Guinea forward Aliou Balde after rushing on to the field Tuesday in another security incident during the Olympic men’s football tournament.
July 30 – Canada have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the decision to dock their women’s team six points in the ongoing Olympic drone spying scandal. But they have stopped short of appealing head coach Bev Priestman’s one-year ban.
July 29 – Canada’s women’s football team have been deducted six points at the Olympics and coach Bev Priestman banned for one year in the latest fallout from the drone spying scandal that has rocked the defending gold medalists.
July 29 – FIFA has rejected Argentina’s complaints over a controversial last-minute equaliser being ruled out at the opening match of the Olympic football tournament against Morocco.
July 29 – Round two of the Women’s Olympic group stages caused a major reshuffle, as the tournament was turned on its head with a number of surprise results.
July 26 – Having removed herself from her country’s opening game against New Zealand, Canada’s Olympic women’s football coach Bev Priestman has been thrown out of the competition and suspended by the country’s football federation as the fallout continues over the alleged drone spying scandal.
July 26 – Despite the off-field drama of Canadian drone spying, Israel’s participation in the men’s competition and Moroccan fan violence, the Paris 2024 Olympic tournament for both men and women is underway.
July 25 – The men’s Olympic football tournament got off to a violent and chaotic start Wednesday as Morocco stunned two-time gold medalist Argentina with a 2-1 win.
July 25 – Israel defender Roy Revivo lost his appeal of a two-game FIFA ban at the Paris Olympics in a ruling made hours before the team’s opener against Mali which saw a high level of security and peaceful, though vocal, protest.
July 25 – The Canadian women’s Olympic football team have sacked an assistant coach and another staff member after New Zealand complained to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that a drone was used to spy on their training session.
In an extract from his new book Aux Armes! Sport and the French – an English perspective, Insideworldfootball columnist David Owen highlights the birth place of the march towards the all-conquering World Cup.
July 23 – On the eve of the kick-off of the Olympic football tournament, Palestine have called for the “immediate exclusion of Israel from the Paris Olympics 2024”.