And, so the weekly Le Point reveals, fully 94% of French women and 56% of French men claim to change their underpants daily, against a mere 70% of German women and 45% of German men.

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Last year Deniz Baykal was forced out of the CHP leadership after a video surfaced purportedly showing him and his mistress padding about in their underpants.

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From that he worked out the dominant elements that affect each one, and just whose luck was likely to be in during the Games and who might as well leave their lucky pair of underpants in the laundry basket.

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