By Cédric Callier (with AFP)
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Volleyball player Earvin Ngapeth, basketball player Evan Fournier, footballer Eugénie Le Sommer AFP / JACK GUEZ / AFP / ADEK BERRY / News Images / Panoramic / Patrick Hoelscher/News Images
ANALYSIS – The volleyball players at the foot of the European podium, the catastrophic basketball players at the World Cup, football in search of benchmarks… A look back at a contrasting summer, and a bit worrying, one year before the Paris Games.
No one has forgotten the historic final fireworks display in Tokyo in 2021 for French team sports. Between the golden double in handball – a perfect symbol of diversity –, the coronation of the volleyball players and the two basketball podiums – silver for men and bronze for women, the last weekend of the Tokyo Olympic Games was an unparalleled success. for France. Two years later, and a little less than a year before the 2024 vintage scheduled in Paris, is the dynamic still the same for the different collective disciplines, knowing that Bleus and Bleues all benefit from automatic qualification in as an organizing country, which offers a certain comfort to best prepare for the event? Overview.
For basketball, a disappointing bronze and a shipwreck
French basketball dreamed of greatness this summer. Rather, he had the right to decadence. Particularly on the men’s side, who approached their World Championship in Asia with dreams of gold, and who ended it with their heads in the bucket, dominating the Ivory Coast…
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