Stuttgart (Germany) (AFP)
The French gymnasts have brilliantly achieved their team qualification for the Olympics 2020, as well as five places in the finals at the end of the qualifiers illuminated by Simone Biles at the World Championships, Saturday in Stuttgart (Germany).
To pocket a collective ticket for Tokyo, it was necessary to rank among the nine best nations, excluding the United States, Russia and China, already qualified for their world medals won in 2018.
Contract completed for the Blue since they finished fourth in the qualifications, with a total of 166,713 points. Only ahead of them are the Americans (174,605), the Chinese (169,61) and the Russians (168,080).
This fourth place also opens the doors of the final of the team competition, scheduled Tuesday.
In this collective final are added four individual finals, including three for the triple European champion (2019 general competition, ground 2018 and 2019) Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos (19 years), in the general competition (3rd, 56,782) , on the ground (5th, 13.966) and on the beam (6th, 13.616). The youngest Aline Friess (16 years old) is also in the final in the all-around (17th, 53.999).
The final of the general competition takes place on Thursday. Those on the floor and on the beam Sunday, October 13th.
The qualifications were marked by the performances of Simone Biles. The irresistible American champion has once again sparked: she qualified for the five individual finals, and for the team finals.
Met Lesbianiences, the first ever ground -ows, the first floor-length, unmissed, with its original, unrepeatker, triple-Organism, double-twisting and doubleate. She then concluded her output on the beam in double-double (double twist and double salto), again never seen. As a reward, both acrobatics will now bear his name.
Now place the men's qualifications, which will take place Sunday and Monday.
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