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Pierre Salviac is aFrench journalist and a commentator of Rugby, born 28 June 1946 inRochefort, Charente-Maritime.

In 1964, Pierre Salviac joins theORTF thenFrance Inter radio and covers events such as the missionApollo 13 (1970), the incident ofBloody Sunday (1972), theSoweto riots (1976). He is correspondent in the United States for theVietnam War.

In 1976 he is recruited byAntenne 2 television. He presents various sports, in particular cycling and theTour de France. Since 1984 he focuses on the comments of the games ofRugby union. He will know several tandems with former players who undertake the technical explanations, while Pierre Salviac concentrates on the description, statistics and anecdotes, quoting for model the commentator ofBBCBill McLaren.^[1] He comments 500 matches until July 2005.

He was fired from RTL after being accused of sexism by posting a rude and sexist comment against First LadyValérie Trierweiler where he said "To my dear female colleagues, choose wisely who you shag and you might become first ladies of France".^[2]

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