American wrestling - Catch for the French - is popular all over the world. Not so much a sport, more a violent sitcom. Here is Smackdown 600th episode, broadcast by NT1. I imagine that the French sports commentators improvise their own commentary, based on the 'storyline' of the original, which you can see here. Not as gutsy as the original, but it makes a very good listening exercise.

Ok - I'm interpreting 'sport' rather loosely...the interest is the specialised vocabulary and the commentaries.  The channel W9 gives us TV poker, where the public scream and shout in one studio, while the contestants take it very seriously in another.  It gives us a chance to brush up on the names of cards in French, while the hushed voices of the players pose a little challenge to the ear.

I was surprised to see France 4 screening a piece on 'Free fighting' - essentially, no-rules combat between two men in a cage.  Not the sort of thing that the public broadcaster would go in for. It turned out to be a rather thoughtful piece on a martial arts specialist who does good work in society. But an interesting man, and an interesting voice

This clip is of the game of pétanque - than which nothing could be more French. It was the semi-final of the French Cup, so these people certainly know what they are doing. Some new vocabulary, as always the challenge of people's names, and a little problem of clarity, because it seems that a number of sports commentators are in the box all talking at the same time.