Jeux de la Francophonie 2023

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Nickel  with an easy victory over

 

The crowd seemed a little shocked with how quick their gold medal chance slipped away, but Nickel was very humble in her victory, which the crowd appreciated. 

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 joins the medal table as well @NearPup

 

Bronze for Kutnowski after a few early eliminations by her compatriots.

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Diouf  wins a bronze medal in wrestling, and makes an early play for the dance medal after the bout 

 

 will be going home without much hardware this time.

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Gold for  

 

Incredible scenes as people run around the venue and spectators go into a frenzy of cheers and jumping.

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 and  will face-off in the quarterfinals of women’s basketball, which probably means one of the three or four top teams in the tournament will leave without a chance of medal.  will a fantastic opportunity as a result. 

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Since when Armenia is a francophone country?

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3 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Since when Armenia is a francophone country?

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In 2003 at the Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Summit, Armenia acquired observer status in the OIF, and then at the Quebec-Canada summit in October, 2008, Armenia became an associate member of the OIF.

Link: https://www.mfa.am/en/international-organisations/8

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 withdrew from men’s football, so both team sport matches today won by walkover 

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Cisse , Eseme , Zango , and Koala  are probably the headliners of the athletics entries. A decent amount of entries even with Canada, Quebec, France, Luxembourg, New Brunswick, and Wallonia missing. I do think the level will be lower than six years ago though. 

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1 hour ago, Gianlu33 said:

Since when Armenia is a francophone country?

Pointed this out before, but any country whose aristocracy talked French in the 19th century counts as a Francophone country, no matter what language the serfs spoke.