The best news in connexion with the Olympic Games we have heard for some time, is that the difficulty regarding the constitution of the French Olympic Committee has been overcome. The representative of the leading bodies governing sports la France lately had '8 conference with two out of the three Olympic Committees and the outcome of this was an arrangement, by which the real sporting bodies will be represented on an augmented committee. This is good and we may now expect the pick of French athletes to take part in the festival. We were beaten by France in 1906, but with really representative team, we ought easily to win the majority of events this time. The fact of France joining in will also improve the chances of British athletes beating America's representatives in the purely track and field events decided within the stadium.
This, for the reason that France may score points in the pole vault and discus throwing event, which otherwise would probably go the Americans.
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