The Decathlon Store: The French IKEA Sporting Goods Outlet
History of the Decathlon Brand Today, Decathlon is a company that is no longer to be presented to the French. With a great experience in the distribution of sports and leisure equipment, it has become a real brand with its own identity. From its creation,…
Everything about Football in France (Soccer)
I will use in the article the word soccer and football. The reason is simply that most of my readers are from the USA. French people always loved Football and this is the reason why they created the institutions that manage Football in the world….
The 10 Most Popular Sports in France
I decided to rank the ten most popular sports in France. I gathered the numbers of membership on the official website in 2019 of every official sport federations and rounded the numbers. Just to give you an order, the French population is around 67 million…
7 Fun Facts About the Tour de France
I gather some original facts or numbers about the famous French bike race, the one, the unique: The Tour de France! 1 – Le Tour de France, created by a Newspaper It all started with a simple 1200 meters race in Paris in 1868. Later…
A Guide to Pétanque: A Typical French Lawn Game
Pétanque: A French Game Commonly known as pétanque, the game of boules is considered one of the most popular sports among the French. The game is not far from British bowling and Italian pétanque (Bocce Ball). Petanque is played on a clay surface under plane…
