I asked my mum about the French thing and she said it was because the first country to host the modern olympics was France and so it's a bit of a tradition, just like Greece is the first flag to come in at the opening ceremony :)
There we have it :)

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I asked my mum about the French thing and she said it was because the first country to host the modern olympics was France and so it's a bit of a tradition, just like Greece is the first flag to come in at the opening ceremony :)
There we have it :)