Sport In France
Sports in France play an important role in French society, and the country has a strong sporting history. The most popular sport in France is football.
Read more about Sport In France: Football, Tour De France, Basketball, Motorsports, Handball, Rugby Union, Ice Hockey, Australian Rules Football, Tennis, Cycling, Sailing, Pétanque, Parkour, Table Football, Orienteering, Cricket, Skiing
Famous quotes containing the words sport and/or france:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
Winter for France and Poland.”
—Mel Brooks (b. 1926)