French Sports are WEIRDER Than You Think...

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  • Опубліковано 25 гру 2024

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  • @Pehennji
    @Pehennji 9 місяців тому +601

    "-Et la pétanque?
    -Quoi?
    -Il a oublié la pétanque... Il fait le clown pendant 11 minutes et il oublie la pétanque.
    -Ah la boulette!"

    • @personnequelquun8060
      @personnequelquun8060 9 місяців тому +26

      La ref magnifique au dîner de cons

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 9 місяців тому +20

      Ce qui est amusant c'est que la pétanque est le seul sport de boules à être un peu connu... mais c'est loin d'être le seul à exister, et encore moins celui avec les règles les plus bizarres ! Sur la Loire par exemple, il y avait un sport de boules qui se jouait sur les bateaux, avec des boules en bois, au gré des mouvement du bateau, qui étaient intégrés au jeu.

    • @karinet2
      @karinet2 9 місяців тому +8

      ​@@Ezullof Tu penses à la boule de fort? Les boules ne sont même pas des boules...
      Il y a aussi les boules carrées... en fait ça vaudrait une vidéo entière, ces histoires de boules... (sans oublier l'expression "oh les boules...").

    • @Daggerjam
      @Daggerjam 8 місяців тому +4

      La pétanque carrée et la pelote basque (c'est entre le squash et le baseball je dirais)

    • @auto_math
      @auto_math 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@karinet2c'est la boule de fort qui se joue en charentaises ?

  • @bpie_ef3967
    @bpie_ef3967 9 місяців тому +719

    Tu as oublié la pétanque ! Le meilleur sport de France honnêtement

    • @a0me
      @a0me 9 місяців тому +9

      Petanque Pro on PS2, one of the best selling French games.

    • @GileadMaerlyn
      @GileadMaerlyn 9 місяців тому +38

      Mais oui ! Comment peut-on parler des sports Français sans mentionner la pétanque ?

    • @tanis634
      @tanis634 9 місяців тому +6

      @@a0me nope Assassin's Creed one of the best selling French games

    • @zweispurmopped
      @zweispurmopped 9 місяців тому +11

      Is there Rugby Pétanque, too? 😃

    • @tiberiian
      @tiberiian 9 місяців тому +11

      One of the first things my French Brother in law gifted me was a pétanque set. Shocker it wasn't mentioned.

  • @brendanwoolford5937
    @brendanwoolford5937 9 місяців тому +134

    In the tour de france anecdots you forgot to mention Eugen Christophe in 1913 that had to walk 14km to a forge to repair his bike after a bad fall and got penalised of 3minutes added to his time because a child helped him put on the forge (at the time cyclist were not allowed any exterior help) he went on to finish 29/59 on that day. I think it's the craziest story I've heard of about the Tour de France

    • @BreizhBergamotte
      @BreizhBergamotte 9 місяців тому +2

      He broke his bike fork three times in his career, first time it took him 4 hours, the last time it took him 1 h30 to fix it 👏

    • @thierryf67
      @thierryf67 3 місяці тому +1

      @@BreizhBergamotte so at least he learn to be a blacksmith. 🙂

    • @damienvidal2420
      @damienvidal2420 28 днів тому

      And at the time, they doped with red wine, to lessen the pain...

  • @grogneux
    @grogneux 9 місяців тому +177

    2:00 The odds are that Denisot lied.

    • @dinamiteurdinamiteur2324
      @dinamiteurdinamiteur2324 9 місяців тому

      Obviously. Anyone telling otherwise is a f ing clown.
      Peoples are so dumb that's crazy

    • @flrn84791
      @flrn84791 9 місяців тому +15

      100% 😂

    • @evefear8210
      @evefear8210 9 місяців тому +7

      Obviously yes

    • @ThomasKundera
      @ThomasKundera 4 місяці тому +5

      Odds are 1 when the story is only told *after* the match.

    • @robin82pb94
      @robin82pb94 3 місяці тому +7

      in fact, it's not a french tradition, but an african tradition, of football sorcery. ⚽ The word "Marabout" came from Africa. But, in fact, many marabouts work in France's african immigrants (or by Internet).

  • @Jibasse
    @Jibasse 8 місяців тому +41

    Fencing is a very French sport too ! Even the technical words and the referee language is French.

  • @GroovingPict
    @GroovingPict 9 місяців тому +46

    in Norway we chanted "ut med dommeren, inn med kua" ("out with the ref, in with the cow") whenever we were unhappy with the referee, implying that even a cow could do a better job. I use the past tense, because I dont think it is used much anymore, even among kids, but as someone who was a kid in the 80s and 90s it was pretty ubiquitous back then

    • @isaacbobjork7053
      @isaacbobjork7053 9 місяців тому +6

      In Sweden we sometimes sing, or at least used to; "Ut med domaren och in med Nalle Puh", get the ref off the field and get Winnie the Pooh in

  • @cfgp
    @cfgp 9 місяців тому +155

    2:24 here in portugal we, uhm, attribute a non-taxable profession to the referee's mother

    • @natviolen4021
      @natviolen4021 9 місяців тому +18

      🤣🤣🤣 I will remember and use that phrase from now on.

    • @piotrrashman6487
      @piotrrashman6487 9 місяців тому +16

      what, like ceo of starbucks

    • @themetalslayer2260
      @themetalslayer2260 9 місяців тому +7

      he only quote the most famous proposition we shout at him (the list is long but it's the same in Portugal, the difference is only the translation)

    • @grogneux
      @grogneux 9 місяців тому +34

      Impossible in France.
      Not that we're too highly educated.
      It's just that every job is taxable :p

    • @olivierpuyou3621
      @olivierpuyou3621 9 місяців тому +3

      @@grogneux Yes, despite the fact that we also prefer it to be female and that for the most part the referees are men.

  • @kiwiandrew
    @kiwiandrew 9 місяців тому +36

    I'm a kiwi and I was disappointed that the most recent Rugby World Cup final wasn't between France and Ireland....I felt it would've been a better reflection of the rest of the tournament

    • @KonradvonHotzendorf
      @KonradvonHotzendorf 9 місяців тому +4

      As a South African I am not disappointed 😂
      Those 2 did play well

    • @adiudicium
      @adiudicium 6 місяців тому +2

      @@KonradvonHotzendorf We had to back South Africa, if we couldn't win it was next best to keep the cup in the Southern Hemisphere. Got to stick together.
      France is definitely a kiwi bogeyman, they always challenge us.

    • @MapsCharts
      @MapsCharts Місяць тому +1

      @@adiudicium Like this weekend :D

    • @remmahsroht
      @remmahsroht Місяць тому

      @@adiudicium As a French we couldn't dream for a better rival, the All Blacks are awesome.

  • @GiandomenicoDeMola
    @GiandomenicoDeMola 9 місяців тому +9

    As an Italian, I have to say that, to me, the strangest sports are to be found in the U.S., not in France. Those french are very old and unique and full of history. Now baseball, football, hockey etc. are "Hollywood" sports, to me.

  • @BioFake1
    @BioFake1 9 місяців тому +21

    Le rugby a un ancêtre français nommé la soule qui se jouait village contre village, avec une panse de brebis qu'il fallait envoyer dans le clocher de l'église du village adverse. C'était à peu près la seule règle... ;)

  • @vukkulvar9769
    @vukkulvar9769 9 місяців тому +249

    The best part with rugby is the players often having high education.

    • @olivierpuyou3621
      @olivierpuyou3621 9 місяців тому +56

      And that their supporters do not hit each other or insult each other.

    • @lorax8172
      @lorax8172 9 місяців тому +7

      Every American football player has a higher education 😅

    • @kaycee1076
      @kaycee1076 9 місяців тому +65

      "Rugby players are gentlemen pretending to be hooligans while football players are hooligans pretending to be gentlemen" I think is the old quote.

    • @olivierpuyou3621
      @olivierpuyou3621 9 місяців тому +8

      @@kaycee1076
      Sentence attributed to Jean Pierre Rives, former captain of the France team.

    • @HisuiOgawa
      @HisuiOgawa 9 місяців тому +5

      Always thought funny that my university had 2 rugby fields and nothing for other outdoor activities.
      You got a degree? Then you play rugby. 😂

  • @mireiaortega4936
    @mireiaortega4936 9 місяців тому +23

    If you're going to talk about French cycling you have to mention the Paris-Roubaix! A 257 km long race where the main difficulty is having to ride through cobbled streets that will put your lower back to test! They even change the course when an old street is paved so that it doesn't lose kms of cobbles

    • @darkiee69
      @darkiee69 9 місяців тому

      And building a brand new cobbled road close o the finish.

    • @Daggerjam
      @Daggerjam 8 місяців тому

      Poulidor

  • @arvetemecha
    @arvetemecha 8 місяців тому +7

    To be fair, we love the "Tour de France" because we love science, so we can see the effects of the last breakthroughs in medicines and drugs.

  • @phoenixUPC
    @phoenixUPC 9 місяців тому +17

    Actually, I just checked the 5-0 PSG game (against Steaua Bucuresti on Aug 27, 1997) and the goal was in fact scored on the 41st minute, even though the records show it at 40.
    The discrepancy is because in football, 1st minute is when the clock shows 00:XX, and 41st minute would be when the clock shows 40:XX, but sometimes they just drop the seconds and write what the minute shows (hence off by one) there is a full match video on UA-cam, which unfortunately doesn't show the clock all the time, but if you keep your own clock from the kick off, the clock would have shown 40:54 when the goal was scored, hence on the 41st minute! 😊
    Much respect to the marabout!!

    • @sseb22
      @sseb22 9 місяців тому +5

      I second that: the 1st minute is from 0:00 to 0:59 hence 40:54 is indeed the 41st minute

    • @pentuplemintgum666
      @pentuplemintgum666 9 місяців тому +4

      The same reason we refer to this as the 21st century.

    • @oliviercomte7624
      @oliviercomte7624 Місяць тому

      @@pentuplemintgum666since January the first of 2001.

    • @pentuplemintgum666
      @pentuplemintgum666 Місяць тому +2

      @@oliviercomte7624 All of 2000 I wasted my breath trying to explain this to deaf ears.

  • @JazzlynnRoscoe
    @JazzlynnRoscoe 9 місяців тому +44

    The guy barfing at the end of the marathon after he dedicated his wine bottle to his mum was hilarious 😂

    • @NahorCA
      @NahorCA 9 місяців тому +20

      It was his grand-mother, his "mamie", not "mommy".

    • @JazzlynnRoscoe
      @JazzlynnRoscoe 9 місяців тому +3

      @@NahorCA oh, I thought he said mum. Sorry.🙃

    • @mihaelac2472
      @mihaelac2472 9 місяців тому +4

      He dedicated it to his granny. He said grand mere.

    • @PierreMiniggio
      @PierreMiniggio 9 місяців тому +11

      @@JazzlynnRoscoe No worries, it's a fair mistake to make if you didn't catch the french, because it wasn't that clear.
      He said "grand-mère" which means "grand-mother", and right after he said "mamie" which is a pet name we use to call our grandmother,
      but the way he pronounced it sounded closer to the english pet name "mummy" for "mom" rather than "mamie".
      So that's most likely where the confusion came from.

  • @MrLiakun
    @MrLiakun 9 місяців тому +48

    The Béhour is the best sport ever. Big strong dudes wearing medieval armors and weapons, smashing each other in fun and happiness, what a marvelous idea !

    • @weaselbusters
      @weaselbusters 28 днів тому

      it is russian or polish sport no? i don't think it s french

  • @taputechnic
    @taputechnic 4 місяці тому +10

    I guessed incorrectly that the French would mix rugby with witchcraft. I guessed correctly that the French would mix a marathon with drinking wine.

  • @pernille2389
    @pernille2389 9 місяців тому +14

    I have run the Médoc marathon disguised as a convoi exceptionnel. My finish time was 5.04 h , and I wasn't the last, that was the Dalton brothers and Lucky Luke, but to be fair they were running chained to eachother. I didn't throw up, it is just small glasses of wine, and little amuse bouchés.

  • @poja82
    @poja82 9 місяців тому +77

    Loïc, we love you, but you cannot, really cannot consider the subject complete until you talk about LA PéTANQUE.

  • @geoduet5461
    @geoduet5461 9 місяців тому +35

    Technically we also have the most well known race of all motorsports with Le Mans

    • @BioFake1
      @BioFake1 9 місяців тому +2

      Euh... L'une des plus connues, le Grand Prix de Monaco et les 500 miles d'Indianapolis rivalisent avec les 24h du Mans ;)

    • @Plonoe
      @Plonoe 9 місяців тому +2

      @@BioFake1 Faux.
      Les 24H du Mans sont effectivement la course automobile la plus connue (ainsi que la plus exigeante) au monde.
      Et également l'une des plus anciennes.
      Tu fais certes références à la triple couronne, Le Mans / Monaco / Indy500.
      Mais les 24H du mans ont une plus grande notoriété que les deux autres courses.
      Surtout que Monaco ces 10 dernières années a largement perdu de sa splendeur au point même que la FOM a réfléchis à plusieurs reprise à retirer le GP ou d'y forcer une modification car il n'attire plus autant de monde malgré son aura.
      L'Indy 500 rayonne elle très très majoritairement aux USA. Et très peu ailleurs. Et même aux US, Daytona n'est pas très loin en terme d'audience derrière l'Indy 500.

    • @BioFake1
      @BioFake1 9 місяців тому

      @@Plonoe Alors, je maintiens, Monaco et l'Indy 500 font plus d'audiences que les 24h, que ce soit en présentiel, à la TV ou sur internet.
      La plus exigeante ? Alors pourquoi on voit les pilotes délaissés en F1 aller faire du WEC et tout gagner sans forcer ? Sans parler du fait que le tracé est loin d'être le plus exigeant ( l'enfer vert du Nürburgring l'est bien plus)
      Certes Monaco est sous pression de la part de la FOM et de Liberty Media mais ce n'est pas parce que l'évènement n'est pas suivi ou pas rentable, c'est à cause de l'absence de spectacle une fois la qualif' terminée.
      L'Indy 500 ne rayonne qu'aux USA, peut-être mais en attendant, le marché américain est tellement gigantesque qu'il arrive à se suffire à lui-même. Quand bien même il n'y aurait que les américains qui regardaient l'Indy 500, il aurait toujours plus d'audience que les 24h.
      Donc non, les 24h ne sont pas LA course la plus connue du monde. Elle est extrêmement prestigieuse, elle a une importance historique fantastique etc. Mais elle partage le trône, point final.

    • @95rav
      @95rav Місяць тому

      Didn't they change that to Le Persons, or some random letter from the alphabet?

  • @castorblagueur
    @castorblagueur 9 місяців тому +27

    The "force basque" from south west of france do have some interresting features. In the same region, you have a sport closed to squash calle "pelote basque". one of its version involves a "basket launcher" called "chistera" which can help reach amazing ball speed.

    • @actua99
      @actua99 3 місяці тому +1

      That sounds both cool and absolutely terrifying

    • @LilouGaubert
      @LilouGaubert Місяць тому

      ​@@actua99 oh yeah it's really terrifying but it's very beautiful and the ball is very fait 😃

    • @philblou3832
      @philblou3832 10 днів тому

      La pelote a ses origines dans le jeux de paume

  •  9 місяців тому +3

    I love the fact that the French Federation of fencing officially added light saber combats to its variants 😊.

  • @bobbychouffe6988
    @bobbychouffe6988 9 місяців тому +35

    Maybe forgot the "Pelote Basque" derived from the "Jeu de paume" which is played in west-southern France and northern Spain, the "Pétanque" and the "boule de fort" (wich is kind of a mix between curling and pétanque)

    • @MrBviman
      @MrBviman 9 місяців тому +3

      totally : forgetting pelote basque as American play it a lot in florida

    • @auto_math
      @auto_math 8 місяців тому

      ​@@MrBvimanthey play a variation with 3 walls and xisteras.

  • @ibkawan1652
    @ibkawan1652 8 місяців тому +5

    You didn't presente La Pétanque !!! Sacrilège !!!! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @nmanjos
    @nmanjos 9 місяців тому +59

    Actually you should do an episode about pétanque

    • @docthebiker
      @docthebiker Місяць тому

      Pétanque is an onomatopoeia (the noise the metal balls make). Which is weird as it's Greek, not Latin.

    • @testestedes
      @testestedes Місяць тому

      @@docthebiker Pétanque were invented in 1907 by a French... Not many greek in the streats of France in 1907

    • @docthebiker
      @docthebiker Місяць тому

      @@testestedes Bit of a French resident/speakers intellectual joke about the root of French words.
      Not even that funny, more of an "ohhh" if you have the requisite knowledge.

  • @audep.8619
    @audep.8619 9 місяців тому +2

    J’étais fan de tes formats courts, je le suis encore plus de tes formats longs!!! Excellent! Merci et bravo!!

  • @pierrecasas4769
    @pierrecasas4769 9 місяців тому +53

    Salut Loïc,
    Rigolo et talentueux, comme d'habitude! 👋
    Juste un petit détail/petite erreur : tu as choisi une bouteille bourguignonne ou de la vallée du Rhône (eh oui, parce que chaque région a sa forme de bouteille, en France! Peut-être un autre sujet de vanne pour une de tes prochaines chroniques?) pour parler du marathon du Médoc : SACRILEGE!!!!
    Ils vont pas aimer les Bordelais!!!! 😉😂😂😂

    • @Twanou45
      @Twanou45 9 місяців тому +2

      Oulalah ! J'avoue j'ai tiqué aussi haha.

    • @AlighieriD4nte
      @AlighieriD4nte 9 місяців тому +3

      Qu'on lui donne à boire de la villageoise pour expier sa faute !

    • @calljc
      @calljc 3 місяці тому +1

      C'est un Cahors! Clos Troteligotte.

    • @boom16rag
      @boom16rag Місяць тому +1

      distrayant peut être, pour le talent on repassera, le mec ne sait pas de quoi il parle. Mais il y a apparemment, ici, plus d'amateurs de pif plutôt que de sport, ce que le marathon des poches à vin (du Médoc ndlr) n'est pas.

  • @Volker12332
    @Volker12332 5 місяців тому +2

    In Germany we sing " Schieri wir wissen, wo dein Auto stand, hat gut gebrannt". Roughly translates to " Refree we know where your car stand, it bunt well" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @samstromberg5593
    @samstromberg5593 9 місяців тому +3

    Just for the record, Parkour is supposed to be the FASTEST way to get somewhere - you go through or over or under (usually over) instead of around which cuts a lot of time
    Plus you have to run
    If you're not running, it feels weird
    Like what are you going to vault this wall and do a flip over a table and then ... WALK???

  • @nmanjos
    @nmanjos 9 місяців тому +38

    tu as oublié le jeu de pétanque

  • @cannibalbananas
    @cannibalbananas 9 місяців тому +44

    Was hoping you'd show us a clip of rugby golf. I'm a visual person & am intrigued by this odd combination

    • @Ravioli1586
      @Ravioli1586 9 місяців тому +4

      its basicaly kicking the ball down a golf fairway into round nets

    • @cannibalbananas
      @cannibalbananas 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Ravioli1586 Thank you

    • @SerbanCMusca-ut8ny
      @SerbanCMusca-ut8ny 9 місяців тому +5

      For using and I hope also destroying in the process a golf fairway, this sport has all my admiration.

    • @billhanna2148
      @billhanna2148 9 місяців тому

      @@SerbanCMusca-ut8ny And if they can make it a contact sport too that would eviscerate the image of that annoying boring elitist game for ever.

  • @fadetounforgiven
    @fadetounforgiven 9 місяців тому +4

    Football and witchcraft? In some places in Spain they leave garlic around the goal area to "help" the local team.

  • @MarcoDeLasVegas
    @MarcoDeLasVegas 9 місяців тому +3

    La pétanque, la chistera (bien qu'il me semble qu'elle existe aussi à Miami), le lancé d'espadrilles, le craché de noyeau de cerises...

  • @MrRamtalok
    @MrRamtalok 9 місяців тому +8

    Pour info: les jouteurs nautiques ne portent pas de protections en dehors du pavois dans le Languedoc.
    EN: nautic jousters do not in fact wear any protective gear outside of the shield in the Languedoc region.

    • @andrewrobinson2565
      @andrewrobinson2565 9 місяців тому +1

      I was gifted a pavois and a lance (with the teeth 😮!). They have pride of place in my home in Agde. ❤

  • @Ezullof
    @Ezullof 9 місяців тому +3

    I live in a boat jousting city in northern France. Never found it that weird, it's a pretty cool event... except when they do it when it's cold and raining. Never understood why they didn't always do it during the summer when there's tourists. Some people are apparently very competitive.

  • @fredericsagniez9536
    @fredericsagniez9536 8 місяців тому +2

    The French Flair the entire Rugby World highlights !!

  • @TheGhost-q6y
    @TheGhost-q6y 9 місяців тому +19

    As a South African I feel bad for knocking out France.🇿🇦

    • @Wazkaty
      @Wazkaty 9 місяців тому +9

      Your team was better than our! Don't 😊

    • @theoneandonlyAeth
      @theoneandonlyAeth 9 місяців тому +4

      One of the best games in any sport I've ever seen. Go Bokke!

    • @olivierpuyou3621
      @olivierpuyou3621 9 місяців тому +8

      C'est la vie mon ami...

    • @TheGhost-q6y
      @TheGhost-q6y 9 місяців тому +5

      ​@@WazkatyThanks

    • @pinkunicorn3373
      @pinkunicorn3373 8 місяців тому

      The New Zealand referee helped you very well. Difficult to win at 16 against 15. I just remind here that even Ben O'Keeffe said that he was not satisfied with his refereeing. In short, stolen match like in 1995;

  • @niravparmar5790
    @niravparmar5790 9 місяців тому +2

    I love every video you make, because you bring joy to learning French

  • @tazzyanderson1192
    @tazzyanderson1192 3 місяці тому +1

    I cannot hear the word "parkour" without thinking of The Office 😂
    Thank you for adding in that clip

  • @Rave-agent
    @Rave-agent 9 місяців тому +10

    Handball? Petanque? Maybe an episode 2 in your future.

    • @autre1806
      @autre1806 9 місяців тому +6

      Isn't handball german, though ?

    • @karinet2
      @karinet2 9 місяців тому +1

      @@autre1806Yes it is (and therefore its pronunciation shoud be as in german...).

    • @Rave-agent
      @Rave-agent 9 місяців тому

      Rugby isn't exactly French.

    • @arvetemecha
      @arvetemecha 8 місяців тому

      @@Rave-agent well, some people still think that the old medieval and brutal games known as "la choule" inspired the rugby game. Which is somewhat far fetched...

  • @AlexTharby
    @AlexTharby 9 місяців тому +2

    I think Water Jousting would be extremely fun

  • @allanjmcpherson
    @allanjmcpherson 9 місяців тому +2

    I like the implication that American football is more creatively named specifically because all the players use their hands, and only one player is allowed to kick the ball.

  • @f.w.7843
    @f.w.7843 9 місяців тому +4

    Love your long form videos.

  • @Brubarov
    @Brubarov 9 місяців тому +1

    It's not true, in American football, you almost never hit the ball with your foot! Got ya! It makes total sense.

  • @knoqx79
    @knoqx79 9 місяців тому +15

    10:49 and you use a BOURGOGNE botle !?

    • @SerbanCMusca-ut8ny
      @SerbanCMusca-ut8ny 9 місяців тому

      Yep, noticed that too.
      Shame!... shame!... shame!...

    • @Thl-op4xe
      @Thl-op4xe 9 місяців тому

      Well the bike wasn't even real...

    • @--Za
      @--Za 9 місяців тому

      Isn't it a Côtes du Rhône bottle ?

    • @dapoun7228
      @dapoun7228 9 місяців тому

      @@--Za Bourgogne and Côtes du Rhône use the same bottle

  • @KaitlynBurnellMath
    @KaitlynBurnellMath 9 місяців тому +1

    I am highly amused by a description I heard on another youtube channel. "Parkour is the French martial art of running away."
    It's not wrong--if you're in a self-defence situation, then parkour will probably help you more than karate.

  • @88WhiteRhino
    @88WhiteRhino 7 місяців тому

    The catch 22 of safety equipment in water jousting is that yes it protects you but it also helps you sink...

  • @Bluesruse
    @Bluesruse 9 місяців тому +1

    2:00 If 5 goals was expected to be possible, and number 18 plays a goal scoring role, the odds are not too crazy.
    He was off by one minute, so that's 90/3 = 30 possible guesses (about 3,4% chance to guess correct minute). And there's 5 goals so you get 5 guesses. Imagine rolling a die with 3,4% probability 5 times. Not too crazy. Then you'd need a prior probability guess for the 5-0 result in the first place, and lastly the probability that the scorer was no. 18 (which you could take estimate from season statistics, how many of the teams goals were scored by no. 18?). These are not "out of this world" odds. Now imagine that there could have been dozens of different future tellers with different predictions, and as you increase the number of predictions, it becomes almost a guarantee that you will find one that is specific enough to satisfy the odds of this prediction. And also, if no prediction came true, then there's no story and we wouldn't hear about it, so we are already biased: Winning the lottery is very unlikely, but people win the lottery all the time, we just don't think about the millions times people *didn't* win.
    And, *voilà* (see what I did there), this is how fortune telling works: Generic predictions, that make you think the odds are far worse than they truly are, come true, or even close enough, and the people marvel. *Oh là là*
    And that is, if nobody simply *lied* to make this story up. Regardless, it's still not as crazy as one might think.

  • @BlazeMiskulin
    @BlazeMiskulin 9 місяців тому +2

    {Puts on pedantic hat} It's called "football" because it's played "on foot" rather than on horseback--which is how most historical games using large balls were played.

    • @trevorkirby3781
      @trevorkirby3781 9 місяців тому

      To be even more pedantic , you could use any part of your body to propel the ball as can still be seen in the traditional shrovetide football games around England that usually involve teams half a village strong and normally involve a rule on how to start, how to score and very little else.

  • @dreckshippy
    @dreckshippy 9 місяців тому +2

    We actually have water jousting too in Ulm Germany - but without the safety gear just old costumes ...
    It's called "Fischerstechen"

  • @WoodyGamesUK
    @WoodyGamesUK 9 місяців тому +1

    There've been 10 Rugby World Cups, it's not that notable that France has never won. Actually only one was won by a non-Southern hemisphere country (the big 3: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa), it was England in 2003.

  • @Chaguerrand
    @Chaguerrand 9 місяців тому +15

    PARKOUUUUUR

  • @minirop
    @minirop 9 місяців тому +5

    You should have talked about how the Tour de France was at the beginning, and how someone was disqualified because there was a SNCF sticker on his bike, or some took a car. 😂

  • @snowman8052
    @snowman8052 9 місяців тому +1

    I did the marathon du médoc last year. It was awesome! I’ll do it again!

  • @holleighlordel1575
    @holleighlordel1575 9 місяців тому +1

    Very entertaining! 😂

  • @citywitt3202
    @citywitt3202 9 місяців тому +1

    Of course French would be the language where it’s possible to accidentally ask for a tennis instead of an apple juice.

    • @mecha-sheep7674
      @mecha-sheep7674 9 місяців тому

      Not really. Pomme and paume don't sound the same. /pom/ vs /pɔm/

    • @citywitt3202
      @citywitt3202 9 місяців тому

      @@mecha-sheep7674 ce n’est pas la même pour vous, et pour mois, mes les autre roastbeefs …

  • @PaikCitron
    @PaikCitron Місяць тому

    Loic ! You forgot to mention that until the 60's athletes of Le Tour de France used to stop in pubs and restaurant on the way to get themselves some drink, mostly alcohol !

  • @MultiEricr
    @MultiEricr 9 місяців тому +6

    In America we have drunk marathoning. We just call it bar hopping though.

    • @JazzlynnRoscoe
      @JazzlynnRoscoe 9 місяців тому +2

      In south Texas we call it the weekend...

    • @Babu-d4x2g
      @Babu-d4x2g 9 місяців тому +1

      En France, c'est les"bars parallèles" ( quote Aymeric Lompret )! 😄

  • @morganstephan1947
    @morganstephan1947 Місяць тому

    i discover you're channel a couple weeks ago, i love it ! You make me laugh a lot and today i even learn things about my country and it's sport i don't know !
    I'm french but it's an occasion to practice my english ... (sorry if it's not perfect) Love you're work continue and thanks you !

  • @lorettascott5477
    @lorettascott5477 9 місяців тому +5

    😂 contact golf ⛳😂

  • @jaouadelhouss3592
    @jaouadelhouss3592 9 місяців тому +25

    Ta oublié le Savate 😅

  • @laurentfournier9508
    @laurentfournier9508 9 місяців тому +1

    Longue Paume, Ballon au Poing....all practiced in a few villages in the north of France.

  • @KevYuu
    @KevYuu Місяць тому

    Merci et/and thank you ! for this video :)

  • @danuzay8940
    @danuzay8940 9 місяців тому

    Adorei esse vídeo! Obrigada 🙏 thanks for putting all this information together and delivering it with a unique humor. I love your rosy cheeks btw 🤗

  • @guillaumedep1
    @guillaumedep1 9 місяців тому +1

    I would have liked to hear more about scoring for tennis. Hint: it's based on divisions of currency as tennis was all about the gambling.

  • @DjaAkh
    @DjaAkh 9 місяців тому

    I lived in Bordeaux for a while and witnessed a marathon du Medoc. A friend even participated for some distance. I think there are dedicated runners who don't get drunk and finish and then there are the others. Like my friend :)

  • @shaezbreizh86
    @shaezbreizh86 9 місяців тому +4

    You should have talk about béhourd, its not french and is practiced all over europe, but it worth being mentionned as it is pretty atypic
    Its a bunch of dude dressed with armor and doing medieval fight

  • @nifnouf9371
    @nifnouf9371 9 місяців тому +3

    What about chess-boxing? It first appeared in a comic book by Enki Bilal, and then people turned it into an actual discipline.

  • @Shady-Socks73
    @Shady-Socks73 2 дні тому

    Invented by a gentleman called "William Webb Ellis" at a school in Rugby, Warwickshire. 🇬🇧 UK ❤

  • @calumyoung9688
    @calumyoung9688 27 днів тому +1

    1:58 if the year 2000 is the 21st century is the 40:00 the 41st minute? Everyone forgets about everything before 0:59 😮

  • @dianaadler7414
    @dianaadler7414 9 місяців тому

    For four years, I lived in Frontignan next to Sete. Lots of jousting there in the summer ... And in Balaruc, et al. Oh, as for a drivers license, it took me 310 days for an 'exchange'. That's a story unto its own.

  • @parlonschiffres
    @parlonschiffres 8 місяців тому +1

    Il y a aussi le 110 mètres - pastis : c'est un 110 mètres haies, mais à la place des haies, il faut boire un verre de pastis. Les chances de terminer le parcours sont... faibles.

  • @ThomasGodart
    @ThomasGodart 3 місяці тому

    3:10 "ishhh true, ishhh true" ;-)

  • @etiennedlf1850
    @etiennedlf1850 9 місяців тому +2

    Could have mentioned the revolution with le serment du jeu de paume when the revolutionaries took other the game room after their room was barricaded

  • @pierrejacques1652
    @pierrejacques1652 4 місяці тому +1

    Oh boy Loïc :)
    15, 30 and 40 come from the distance you could serve the ball against the wall, after you won the first, second or third point. And why not 45? Because it was considered too close from the wall :)
    And "lov" comes from "l'oeuf", which stands for 0, but that was a brittish invention if my memory is still sharp.
    J'adore tes vidéos !

  • @PierreMiniggio
    @PierreMiniggio 9 місяців тому +2

    Et la pétanque bordel de m... ?!
    Quand même ! Nan mais oh ! 😂

  • @johnnygomez7063
    @johnnygomez7063 2 дні тому

    9:00-9:40 -PICTURES FROM PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

  • @remischmitt9308
    @remischmitt9308 8 місяців тому

    In the Netherlands we have the Stiletto Run: 100 meter dash down a street in high heels. Both men and females may run. Disqualified if heel breaks.

  • @Mekkiceh
    @Mekkiceh 5 днів тому

    I've never hear of "rugby-golf", but you forgot, la Pétanque, la Boule Lyonnaise, le Palet, la Pelote Basque and le Baby Foot. We need a second video !

  • @tazzyanderson1192
    @tazzyanderson1192 3 місяці тому +1

    Fun fact: the nickname for Paralympic rugby is "Murderball"

  • @rialyandriamiseza9814
    @rialyandriamiseza9814 4 місяці тому

    My (french) collegues is in a club of trollball. It's basically a medieval war but you have to put a ball in a basket (on the ground).

  • @LeFoUv3r7
    @LeFoUv3r7 29 днів тому

    Le marathon du Médoc, que tu images avec une boutanche de Côte du Rhône , c'est assez drôle. C'est qu'il a fini loin, notre marathonien !

  • @matiasbenedit8157
    @matiasbenedit8157 9 місяців тому +1

    France is the team that played the most Rugby World Cup finals without winning.

  • @AlighieriD4nte
    @AlighieriD4nte 9 місяців тому +1

    Mais oui le marathon du Médoc ! Une institution ! 😂

  • @chrismaldevis8860
    @chrismaldevis8860 4 місяці тому +1

    J'ai rien contre le football americain qui a été inventé il y a 160 ans mais avoir renommé le "Football" en "Soccer" alors que comme le "rugby" qui s'en inspire on y joue pratiquemment pas avec les pieds, on sent qu'il y avait un besoin des huiles Americaines d'avoir leur jeu bien a eux genre "made in us", les sports francais sont pas vraiment bizarre, ils sont l'evolution de jeu parfois tres ancien comme "le jeu de paume" devenu tennis par la suite ou la petanque ou les boules ont connu leur version argile, bois, pierre jusqu'a la version final en acier.

  • @sergarlantyrell7847
    @sergarlantyrell7847 9 місяців тому +1

    Les Bleus are one of the strongest rugby teams in the world?
    What does that make Italy then?

  • @lucasdesvignes7190
    @lucasdesvignes7190 Місяць тому

    After living 27 years in France, i can't say i ever heard of many of those sports XD

  • @coyecamille6975
    @coyecamille6975 17 днів тому

    You could have mentionned "La diagonale des fous" in La Réunion as well. I guess that, between this and pétanque, it's a good start for a second episode on the topic! ^^

  • @Leslie-Risse
    @Leslie-Risse 9 місяців тому +2

    To add up on the female side, the women's football team is doing good right now, recently getting to the Nations Cup final against Spain. They lost but hey, The women's spanish team is incredible. There's a reason they're world champion despite being in an open conflict with their coach during the World Cup.
    The women's rugby team is pretty good as well, beating the Black Ferns of New Zealand in the opening game of the Women XV. They're ranked third best team in the world, right behind New Zealand (and England is first).
    And for the cycling part, how not to mention the Tour de France Femme! It was (re)launched just two-three years ago and it was a resounding success! The most famous french female cyclist is Jeannie Longo (who is retired), and the current best french female cyclist (for the races like the Tour de France) is Juliette Labous. The most famous current french female cyclist is probably Audrey Cordon-Ragot (she's more of a classics cyclist).
    To add more sports, how not to talk about Handball? Both men and women competitions are dominated by France right now. I remember loving watching Jackson Richardson play as a kid. Same goes for biathlon by the way but I don't know much about this sport.
    Also, basketball I guess? I don't know much about the sport but I know at least the names of Tony Parker, Rudy Gobert, Nicolas Batum and... Wemby. yeah, the last one I only know his shortened name. X)
    And finale, how not to mention the FFL? La Fédération Française de la Lose! Look it up.
    Allez Alain Philippe!

    • @clemente3966
      @clemente3966 9 місяців тому +1

      N'oublie surtout pas le tennis de table.
      C'est peut-être pas français, mais il y a les deux frères Lebrun qui ont réussi à se placer dans le top 20 mondial (Alexis 20ème et Félix 6ème), et l'un des deux, je sais plus lequel, a battu le 1er du classement.
      Et puisque chaque pays ne peut envoyer que 2 joueurs aux JO, il y a d'assez fortes chances qu'ils gagnent la médaille.

    • @Leslie-Risse
      @Leslie-Risse 9 місяців тому

      @@clemente3966Disons que ça c'est beaucoup plus dans l'actualité récente, mais oui, je ne les oublie pas ! D'ailleurs je bosse dans une boutique où il y a un corner J.-O. et je déplore l'absence totale de goodies pour le tennis de table !

  • @gpfifly
    @gpfifly 9 місяців тому +5

    Seen them play Basque pelota, that's crazy, maybe not originally French but the French are the crazy people still doing it

    • @olivierpuyou3621
      @olivierpuyou3621 9 місяців тому

      Not just the French, the Spanish too and it even seems to me that Argentina is world champion, or was.

    • @ochalo4002
      @ochalo4002 9 місяців тому +1

      Euskara sport no francia played in every country with basque community. You'll never see this outside of basque country in france so watch your words !

    • @gpfifly
      @gpfifly 9 місяців тому

      I've seen then play it in French Reunion island @@ochalo4002

    • @davidpaterson2309
      @davidpaterson2309 24 дні тому

      “Jai Alai” (much the same thing) is played extensively in Latin America and in places in the USA with Latino populations - eg Florida. Also in the Philippines. Seems the Basques took it with them everywhere they went.

    • @gpfifly
      @gpfifly 23 дні тому

      @@ochalo4002 Reunion island isn't basque and they play it

  • @emiliendespres1300
    @emiliendespres1300 9 місяців тому +8

    Could I interest you in chessboxing ? Exactly what it sounds like, invented in a bande dessinée by Enki Bilal.

    • @Denwelyn
      @Denwelyn 3 місяці тому

      Ah merci de mentionner le chessboxing ! En voyant la vidéo j'ai immédiatement pensé à ça :D

  • @95rav
    @95rav Місяць тому

    4:50 Le tour de France only ever happens in France.
    Thanks... I'll tattoo that on my forehead so I don't forget where to go next time I want to tour France.

  • @AnthonyDooley
    @AnthonyDooley 4 місяці тому

    That wine run sounds like a Beer Crawl in Wisconsin!

  • @geoffroi-le-Hook
    @geoffroi-le-Hook 4 місяці тому

    In jeu de paume, a servant put the ball in play. Hence the term "to serve."

  • @taalbleiz
    @taalbleiz 9 місяців тому +1

    La pétanque oui, mais à boules carrées !

  • @franckluciani9284
    @franckluciani9284 9 місяців тому

    et le béhourd !!! Nondidiou il a oublié le béhourd !

  • @scotttaylor8462
    @scotttaylor8462 7 місяців тому

    Not sure about France, but coming from someone who played football in Texas and Rugby in New Zealand, football is definitely more violent. Blocking definitely has a lot to do with this. Also, with pads, you just hit harder.

  • @sociallife6514
    @sociallife6514 9 місяців тому

    You could have said that french cyclists used to stop on pubs on the road of tour de France to refill their bottle with beer or wine. And generally it was for free.

  • @AlyaaAlyiz
    @AlyaaAlyiz 9 місяців тому

    Oh my, there are so many sports I've never heard about! I'm going to do some dig up XD Thanks for teaching me things about my own country, I love it 👌

  • @Eogard
    @Eogard Місяць тому

    No mention of Chess Boxing either, created by Enki Bilal in 1999 in a comic. Since he was naturalized French in 1967, it counts as a french sport.