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The Olympics - 2 quick questions

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Q1. Why are some announcements made in French before they are made in English ? (Some of opening ceremony was like this as well). Why French ?? Why before the language of the host nation ???

 

Q2. How does the badminton group to knock-out stage work ? In football, say, the winner of a group plays the runner-up of another group (so winning group has a theoretical advantage of meeting a supposedly weaker opponent in the knock-out stage) - so all try to win. Works well - I assume badminton must be different as those players were trying to lose !

 

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French and English are both official IOC languages.

Where English is not the national language, the announcements are made in English, then the local language.

Where English is the national language, the announcements are made in French, then the local language, which is English.

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