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Record 1 2025-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Life-Saving (Water Sports)
CONT

Similar to musical chairs, beach flags eliminates one competitor per heat at a time, and the last heat has only two competitors. Contestants must lie down in the sand and upon the whistle, get up, turn around, and spring to any available flag.

OBS

beach flags: The designation is plural in form but singular in construction.

Key term(s)
  • beachflags

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sauvetage (Sports nautiques)
DEF

Épreuve de course sur sable dans laquelle, à l’issue de chaque manche, le coureur qui n’a pu s’emparer d’un des bâtons plantés dans le sable est éliminé, le nombre de bâtons étant inférieur, lors de chaque manche, d’une unité au nombre de concurrents.

OBS

Les bâtons musicaux sont une des épreuves du sauvetage côtier sportif.

OBS

bâtons musicaux : désignation et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 12 juin 2018.

Spanish

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