Upper Volta at the 1972 Summer Olympics but boycotted it with other Africa nations. By the time it returned to the Games in 1988, the nation was known as Burkina Faso. The first athlete from Upper Volta to compete in the Olympics was Taka Gangua, who along with Chadian Taki N'Dio, competed in the men's javelin throw as part of the French delegation to the 1924 Summer Games in Paris. French Upper Volta then formed part of French West Africa, a federation of eight French colonial territories. Upper Volta competed under that name for the first and only time at the Summer Olympics in the 1972 Games
Eligibility of international words in Interlingua the productive sphere. Thus, the addition of Dutch and Hungarian to Interlingua's control languages would not affect the resulting vocabulary. As research progressed, IALA found that a close adherence to the Anglo-Romance productive sphere led to the omission of some clearly international words. As a result, the rule of three was adjusted. The two most prominent languages in the receptive sphere, German and Russian, became control languages. A word that was missing from one or two of the productive controls was then eligible for Interlingua if it occurred in one or both, respectively, of the added receptive controls. The Iberian