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Pierre Bornat

French alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7192089 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pierre Bornat is a French alpine skier and sport official best known for taking the Judge's Oath at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.

References

IOC 1992 Winter Olympics

Wendl, Karel. "The Olympic Oath - A Brief History" Citius, Altius, Fortius (Journal of Olympic History since 1997). Winter 1995. pp. 4,5.

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“Pierre Bornat” enters the record as french alpine skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pierre, Bornat and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1997, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pierre, Bornat and French.
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“Pierre Bornat” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pierre, Bornat and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7192089. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1997 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pierre Bornat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.