{"id":29689,"date":"2018-02-13T05:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=29689"},"modified":"2018-02-11T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T17:48:26","slug":"french-vocabulary-winter-olympics-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-vocabulary-winter-olympics-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"French Vocabulary – Winter Olympics Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The games of the XXIII Winter Olympics began last week in PeyongChang, South Korea. And since French is one of the official languages<\/a> of the Jeux olympique<\/strong> (Olympic games<\/em>, often abbreviated in French as les JO)<\/em>, I thought we’d take a look this week at some useful French Olympics vocabulary.<\/p>\n

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Les sports des JO d’hiver<\/strong> \/ The Winter Olympic sports<\/em><\/p>\n

There are 15 major categories of sport in this years JO, though since they all come in many varieties, the number of actual competitions (and competitors) is much greater. The major categories are:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Fran\u00e7ais<\/th>English<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Bobsleigh<\/td>Bobsled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Curling<\/td>Curling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hockey sur glace<\/td>Ice hockey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luge<\/td>Luge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patinage artistique<\/td>Figure skating<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patinage de vitesse<\/td>Speed skating<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte<\/td>Short-track skating<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skeleton<\/td>Skeleton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ski acrobatique<\/td>Free-style skiing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ski alpin<\/td>Downhill skiing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ski nordique^<\/td>Nordic skiing^<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Biathlon<\/td>Biathlon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Combin\u00e9 nordique<\/td>Nordic combined<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saut \u00e0 ski<\/td>Ski jumping<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ski de fond<\/td>Cross-country skiing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Snowboard<\/td>Snowboard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\n^ Ski nordique<\/em> is a category that includes the events from biathlon <\/em>to ski de fond.<\/em><\/p>\n

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L’\u00e9quipe fran\u00e7aise<\/strong> \/ The French team<\/em><\/p>\n

France is sending 108 athletes to PeyongChang. They will compete in onze<\/strong> \u00e9preuves*<\/strong> (11 events<\/em>). There are no French teams for curling, hockey sur glace, <\/strong>luge, or skeleton.<\/p>\n

Et pour finir<\/strong> \/ Finally<\/em><\/p>\n

Il fait tr\u00e8s froid \u00e0 PeyongChang!<\/strong> \/ It is very cold in PeyongChang.<\/em> So cold in fact that they’ve had to delay some of the events. Recently I came across a new word in French for something to keep your hands warm: mitaines. <\/strong>I was familiar with gants<\/strong> (gloves)<\/em> and moufles<\/strong> (mitten)<\/em> but mitaines<\/strong><\/em> was new to me. And while I assumed that it was a borrowed word from the English mitten,<\/em> it turns out that mitaines <\/em><\/strong>is an old French world that actually gave us the English word!<\/p>\n

* \u00e9preuves <\/em>can mean event<\/em> as in a sporting contest, but it can also mean a test, a trial, or an ordeal, a test of strength or of character.<\/p>\n

Image Credit: By Korea.net \/ Korean Culture and Information Service (Photographer name), CC BY-SA 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=31702226<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

The games of the XXIII Winter Olympics began last week in PeyongChang, South Korea. And since French is one of the official languages of the Jeux olympique (Olympic games, often abbreviated in French as les JO), I thought we’d take a look this week at some useful French Olympics vocabulary. Les sports des JO d’hiver…<\/p>\n

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