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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]
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.
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The European Broadcasting Union ( EBU; French: Union européenne de radio-télévision, UER) is an alliance of public service media organisations whose countries are within the European Broadcasting Area or who are members of the Council of Europe. As of 2024, it is made up of 123 member organisations from 56 countries, [ 2] and 31 associate ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
After everyone was seated and the Olympic torch relay ended its metropolitan leg around the area surrounding the Stade de France, the event began with a pre-recorded video (with footage of past opening ceremonies of the Games) of comedian Jamel Debbouze carrying the flame into an empty Stade de France, having not realised that the ceremony ...