Talk:France at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Broadcasting

"In France, France 2 will be the sole broadcaster of the games." --> Wrong. Both France 2 and France 3 broadcast the games and Canal+ also does it (even though it's pay per view). It's also possible to see the games on Eurosport (free on "télévision numérique terrestre", a free digital terrestrial television service). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.194.112.205 (talk) 14:31, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

• • Soccer events were broadcast on France 4. Some events were also broadcast on Sport+, a Canal+ subsidiary.

Stub

A lot of stuff is missing here, nothing between Gymnastics and Taekwondo is listed!? They sent a handball team in, for instance. Lejman (talk) 14:38, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

About 180 athletes are now detailed. Still missing: track cycling, fencing, judo, rowing, sailing, weightlifting, wrestling, team sports, maybe others. Olympian77 (talk) 19:49, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

By my count, 323 athletes are outlined now. Olympian77 (talk) 14:00, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Athletics Ranks

The convention for the rank in track athletic events is to record the position in the heat only, this is different than for e.g. swimming or field events where the overall rank (vs all heats) is given. This is because qualifiers for the next round are decided differently in the two sports. In swimming qualifing competitors are decided only on a time basis, so if, e.g., heat 1 is is faster than heat 2 it is possible that all the competitors from heat 1 and none from heat 2 would get through to the next round. However in track athletics qualifiers for the next round are decided by the first X athletes in each heat getting through, i.e. at least X athletes from every heat will get into the next round. Therefore the results for track athletics events in this article should be recorded as the position of the athlete in their heat only. Cheers Basement12 (T.C) 14:24, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

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