olympic (language) question.
Discussion
Both French and English are the official Olympic languages. If the Olympics are held in a non-French and non-English speaking country, the announcements are also made in that country's official language. French is in there because the IOC was founded by a Frenchman, Pierre de Fredy. English is in there because they ain't daft.
DrTre said:
Eric Mc said:
This question was raised umpteen times - often in a very angry and aggressive way - by quite a few PHers
Quelle surprise...So it's a broadly similar reason to Jeux Sans Frontieres?
Frenchmen started quite a few international sporting movements. The World Cup was the idea of Jules Rimet - Formula 1 was a French idea too. All aviation and land speed record are logged by French based organisations.
The Schneider Trophy for raciong seaplanes was also set up by a French man.
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