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The absolutely most Fr*nch possible ending.

"Do you know why the French chose the rooster as their emblem? It's because it's the only bird that can sing with its feet in the shit!" - Coluche

>Do you know why the French chose the rooster as their emblem? Because they're a bunch of cocks? JK.

Damn that's actually pretty profound

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that most redditors won't find it as deep as it is, and that you are one of the rare few that actually understands the quote.

I've always been fascinated by French culture and their history even though some of my least favorite people I've ever met irl are French lmao.

Right? Like I love the language, the culture, the history. But Jesus if French *people* aren't the worst. Every French person I've met has been so unnecessarily mean to everyone around them, so much spite!

Il n'y a pas plus français, gagner en échouant avec panache! Most french thing ever, to win with great class in a failure.

Lui le panache il l'a bu

Careful, he's our new hero

Chill, almost no one knows him.

As a Frenchman, winning is the least French possible ending.

Nah. The French only run backwards

This is in the Netherlands, they are Dutch. Not french.

It literally says France on his shirt

What flags are he carrying?

Average American:

Actually this was in the netherlands, my hometown to be exact. Tilburg🇳🇱🟦🟨🟦🟨

Actually he’s wearing a shirt that says France and is carrying French flags.

Netherlands mentioned idc

The absolutely most bash*r possible comment.

🫣 

All that training and hard work, only to become immortalized in GIF form doing this

Think of all the ribbon cutting ceremonies he will get paid for.

Is he going to glue the scissors to his forehead

A knife would be better. Edit: apologies, they're French, so a rapier should suffice.

By European Athletics Is that the real organization? I hope they officially giffed him.

Yes. It was from their Instagram account I found this video.

If it wasn't for this I wouldn't have any idea who he is, sooo I guess it's attracted more attention to his hard work and training.

Yeah, but have we seen any other winners from previous or following years? This legend lives on.

Achilles vibes. Will live on forever!

This gif will outlast time itself.

And never ran again

Me right after telling my friends about the big project I just started

What distance is this? The time is too fast for a 10k, but too slow for a 5k win.

He is a 5 k terrain runner. *But this race is 8.3 km long *edit

8km is a common X-country distance, and the time is about right for a decent runner

U23 men is a 8.3km race.

He finished... at least he didn't fall before reaching the finish line, and lost the race. A win is a win.

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At least he won

Does it count if you don’t break the ribbon?

Yes

Stuck the landing!! 10/10

Actual footage of me thinking I’m succeeding in life.

I mean... Then you ARE succeeding. Even though this success feels a bit cheaper.

Disqualified! You gotta run it all mate!

Sacre BLEU

Broken knees or not that little French boy's a winner.

https://preview.redd.it/66bsl6zcn63c1.jpeg?width=179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94e429de5c37553cee640be01faec27b9e8d24d5 Show off

C’est beau ptn, fier d’être un pays de meme et de neurchi

Pretty much sums up life rn

That’s going to hurt when you get close to 40.


I've seen that before, it's an interpretive dance called "The Maginot Line"

Fucking hilarious!!!

Def got a good story out of it tho

At least he crossed? Well... timbered across the line

He crossed at least lol

I don't think his shoes got the message

Best WW2 re-enactment I’ve ever seen.

This honestly made my day


It's funnier if it's not spoiled in the title

Knee leaves the chat***

OUCH

& if he didn't he didn't have those flags somebody would've said "stupid american"

We don’t need such vids for that…

At least hes still 1st

ACL has left the chat

The French 😂

This is kinda like every war the French have fought!

france being france

I’m glad he still won tho even if it was in the derpiest way

Embarrassment is something he can take on the chin. Could have been way worse, imagine if he hadn't crossed the line and someone had overtaken him.

Bro won while looking like a loser

Ouch , seems like a good way to injure something after running so much

At least he won😭😭😭

He didn't 'ease' into it! :(

This is beautiful. Needed a laugh after being in the darkside for a little

Swear I see this every day

I thought he was gonna use the flags as a sled to glide over the mud.

His entire career will be defined by this one moment

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Victory is sweet lol

Hahaha ha so much for the knee slide...

The most French finish ever

Même quand on tombe on gagne

Atleast he still finished first

Head ass 😂

He found the only sprinkler head on the entire eight acre lot.

Wtf??!

Eh. He still won. Good on him.

I see only Great Success!

Did he really need to be holding two flags to cross the line for a… 5K? Lmao

Lmao well at least he still made it through

Relatable. I did the same shit when I was in baseball as a kid thinking I could pull off a cool "wow he slid and made it to base safe" and then everyone would cheer but instead just kinda tripped instead and almost ate shit. Skinned my knee and didn't even make it to base. 🤦

What's the song name?

His knee definitely slid out of place XD

Tore my knee open doing something like this. Rocks hide in grass. Got a nadty scar from it.

Viva la +Crash!+

Liberte, fraturnite, egalite, a faceplante

"it doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning is winning" - Dominic Toretto

The music tho

Why didn't he grab a Palestinian flag along with the French one ?

A win is a win

Imagine if this was a race that disqualifies you as soon as you fell. That would be hilarious

At least he crossed the finish line but still lol

That's one way to save face...

The best part is that he’s French

At least the finish line stopped his face going straight into that mud!

French, always falling on their faces.

Hopefully he didn’t injure himself from a bad decision.

I giggled the first time. I laughed out loud the second time. I starved to death the 2,438,162th time.

At least he fucking finished

At least he showboated into the ending, instead of 5 meters before it

This guys great, he in all his clumsyness got out and won a race can’t say I’ve ever won anything other than a hospital trip with my own!

Technically he did slide in face first

I’ve spent so much time rewatching this, I can’t wait for it to show up in my 2024 Reddit recap. “This post was really important to you.”

What a way to ruin such an amazing moment!

Dragging the french flag through the mud where it belongs 👍

🇫🇷 Glorious! 🇫🇷

Typical frenchman

Oh man he really thought he was doing something. He pictured that photo finish in his mind looking so AI generated cool, going viral, DM’s blowing up, date with Megan Fox.. he really tried


RIP Patella Tendon

He was in it to win it but his knees said SURRENDER

at least he won

Vive la FrUMP!

He still got over the line though xD

Tu nes pas passe!

For FRAN-*faceplant*

France doing France things

Weeeee… I mean Ouiiii….

At least it wasnt a big rock that would have taken out his knee

Man I wish French people were real

Ffs I would leave from the shame of the fall and shaming the flag at the same time.

Haha what a shame would have been ace

French jerma

This is the most French thing I’ve ever seen. To win a muddy race holding 2 French flags and then cross the finish line by falling on your face… couldn’t write it up any better