Editing Burkina Faso (section)

===Sports===
{{main|Sport in Burkina Faso}}
[[File:Burkina team.png|thumb|right|[[Burkina Faso national football team]] in white during a match]]
Sport in Burkina Faso is widespread and includes football, basketball, cycling, rugby union, handball, tennis, boxing and martial arts. Football is the most popular sport in Burkina Faso, played both professionally, and informally in towns and villages across the country. The national team is nicknamed "Les Etalons" ("the Stallions") in reference to the legendary horse of Princess [[Yennenga]].

In 1998, Burkina Faso hosted the [[Africa Cup of Nations]] for which the Omnisport Stadium in Bobo-Dioulasso was built. Burkina Faso qualified for the [[2013 Africa Cup of Nations|2013 African Cup of Nations]] in South Africa and reached the final, but then lost to Nigeria 0–1. The country has never qualified for a [[FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007050949/http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/index.html|archive-date=7 October 2011|access-date=4 February 2017|title=The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking|publisher=FIFA}}</ref>

Basketball is another sport which enjoys much popularity for both men and women.<ref>{{cite book|last=Keim|first=Marion|title=Sport and Development Policy in Africa – Results of collaborative study of selected country cases|publisher=SUN PRESS|date= 2014|orig-date=1st pub. 2014|page=206|chapter=Country Profile of Sport and Development – Sport and Popularity|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jsrAwAAQBAJ&q=burkina+faso+most+popular+sport&pg=PA57|isbn=978-1-920689-20-9}}</ref> The country's [[Burkina Faso national basketball team|men's national team]] had its most successful year in 2013 when it qualified for the [[AfroBasket]], the continent's prime basketball event.

At the [[2020 Summer Olympics]], the athlete [[Hugues Fabrice Zango]] won Burkina Faso's first Olympic medal, winning bronze in the [[Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump|men's triple jump]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Culpepper |first1=Chuck |title=The thing about poignant triple-jump moments? They sneak up on you. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/08/05/hugues-fabrice-zango-burkina-faso-triple-jump-medal/ |access-date=10 August 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=5 August 2021}}</ref> Cricket is also picking up in Burkina Faso with Cricket Burkina Faso running a 10 club league.<ref>{{Cite web|date=13 December 2021|title=Cricket in Francophone Africa: Report from Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire|url=https://emergingcricket.com/insight/cricket-in-francophone-africa-report-from-burkina-faso-and-cote-divoire/|access-date=25 January 2022|website=Emerging Cricket|language=en-GB}}</ref>