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International field hockey competitions hosted by France (3 C, 12 P) International figure skating competitions hosted by France (4 C, 62 P) FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 (12 P)
La Grande Encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres, et des arts (The Great Encyclopedia: a systematic inventory of science, letters, and the arts) is a 31-volume encyclopedia published in France from 1886 to 1902 by H. Lamirault, and later by the Société Anonyme de la Grande Encyclopédie (Grande Encyclopédie Company).
There were four sports at the inaugural event in 1989: athletics, basketball, association football and judo. Handisport, handball, table tennis and wrestling were added to the competition programme in 1994. None of these four sports featured at the 1997 Jeux de la Francophonie, and boxing and tennis were introduced
Sport in France plays an important role in French society, which is reflected in its popularity among the French people and the nation's strong sporting history. [1] Various types of sports are played and followed in France, notably cycling, fencing, football, [2] and handball, which has earned France eight victories in world championships and five Olympic medals.
Public transport by road includes, as of January 2017, one intercity bus service which operates direct to Dublin. It is operated by JJ Kavanagh and Sons, and serves UCD once a day up and return. [citation needed] There is a local-link town service operated by Slieve Bloom Coaches linking Portarlington with Portlaoise and also with Tullamore. [22]
Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, also helped found the USFSA.At various times he served as the federation's president and secretary general. On 29 December 1885 Georges de Saint-Clair, the secretary-general of Racing Club de France and delegates from Stade Français had formed the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Course a Pied.
Sport en France (French pronunciation: [spɔʁ ɑ̃ fʁɑ̃s]) is a French free-to-air sports television channel. It was launched in 2019 and is headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt , near Paris . In 2020, the channel signed on a content exchange program with France Televisions .
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