The 410 howitzer field guns purchased in the $1,300 million arms sale were reported to be inferior to those offered by a French competitor.
Most events had only French competitors but there were some international entries.
This would help give the American scientists primacy over their French competitors.
The 20-year-old French competitor also works as a model.
Cycling was the sport in which the French competitors had the most success, as they completely dominated the field.
During a transatlantic yacht race in 1967/8 a French competitor was lost.
French competitors won 74 medals, including 18 gold, 26 silver and 30 bronze to finish 9th in the medal table.
There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competitors.
Several of the French competitors are known to depend on sophisticated computer simulations from land.
The following table lists the number of French competitors who participated in each Olympic sport.