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State-sponsored terrorism is terrorist violence carried out with the active support of national governments provided to violent non-state actors.States can sponsor terrorist groups in several ways, including but not limited to funding terrorist organizations, providing training, supplying weapons, providing other logistical and intelligence assistance, and hosting groups within their borders.
v. t. e. The French National Olympic and Sports Committee ( French: Comité national olympique et sportif français, CNOSF) is the National Olympic Committee of France. It is responsible for France's participation in the Olympic Games, as well as for all of France's overseas departments and territories except French Polynesia. [clarify]
Paris was the host city, with events (mainly football) held in 16 additional cities spread across metropolitan France, including the sailing centre in the second-largest city of France, Marseille on the Mediterranean Sea, as well as one subsite for surfing in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
A winter sports week (it was actually 11 days) was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, in connection with the Paris Games held three months later; this event became the first Winter Olympic Games. [46] Although it was intended that the same country host both the Winter and Summer Games in a given year, this idea was quickly abandoned.
Football. Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in France, with 1,993,270 licensed players in the leagues. [ 4] The sport was imported from England at the end of the 19th century, under the name of association football. In its early days, the sport gained followers mainly in the Paris area and the Northern part of the country - Nord-Pas ...
1928 Summer Student World Championships. 1957 World University Games. 1993 Mediterranean Games. 1994 Jeux de la Francophonie. 2003 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival. 2012 World Mind Sports Games. 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie. 2015 European Masters Games. 2022 Summer Gymnasiade.
A. Adoption (farming and cattle raising) Alcohol in association football. Asian Sponsorship Association.
Sponsor (commercial) Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services. The individual or group that provides the support, similar to a benefactor, is known as the sponsor .