Every day, the morning of Europe 1 looks back on one of the sporting events that make the news.
This Friday, Virginie Phulpin looks back on the Women's Basketball Euro which started this Thursday evening.
According to her, it is as important as the Euro men's football.
A Euro where France is favorite. But it's not football, and it's women's sport. The basketball Euro started this Thursday in France and Spain. Les Bleues beat Croatia 105 to 63 in Strasbourg. For Virginie Phulpin, we must not forget these Blue ones!
All the time, they have to do more to prove that they belong.
But then when in addition the dates of the basketball players 'Euro coincide with those of the footballers' Euro, it becomes mission impossible to find a place in the sun.
Challenge met.
It's not just football in life!
And our French basketball team has a lot of assets to come out of this invading shadow.
Follow these Bleues with the orange ball, don't be these last-minute resistance fighters who will applaud them when they are European champions without being interested in them beforehand. There are so many reasons to support them. Already this Euro is partly happening in our country. The French play their group matches in Strasbourg. It's in public. 3,600 people this Thursday evening in the stands, it's like a rebirth for indoor sports so weakened by the health crisis. So we are not going to tell each other stories, there is still this shadow of the Covid hanging over the competition. Look at the Spaniards, their best player, Alba Torrens, one of the stars of European basketball, has tested positive and is not participating in this Euro. You see, this competition swings between shadow and light,so let's tip it on the right side.
French basketball players aim for gold in this Euro
French basketball is one of the best in Europe, as we know.
The demonstration 105 to 63 yesterday against Croatia proves it again.
But in the last four Euros, the Blue have lost in the final, and they have not been sacred since 2009. It is time to break this curse.
They have won all their preparation matches, they are feared across the continent.
All that's missing is this final coronation for us to stop seeing them as romantics with a good game, but as the basketball version of the winning culture of Didier Deschamps and his players.
Yes, to get out of the shadow of football, it's always good to compete! And then this Euro is the first part of a hellish summer for basketball players. Right after, they will fly to the Tokyo games. A real mental and physical challenge. They are resistant, let's trust them. But let's also give them some strength.