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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In the second installment of our series on the French presidential election, we look left.

The country's storied socialist party is in the doldrums, and the field of left-leaning candidates

is big, too big for its own good.

And as the Winter Olympics come to a close, our data team puts numbers to a problem you might

have guessed exists, judges favoring competitors from their own countries.

We even get a sense for how many medals may have been wrongly awarded.

First up, though.

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