Tokyo (AFP)
And three!
The day after the gold of the judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou, the rowers Matthieu Androdias and Hugo Boucheron followed Wednesday with the Olympic title of two sculls, in the Tokyo basin.
But the sportswoman who will be talking about her this Wednesday is undoubtedly the American Simone Biles.
Participate in?
Will not participate?
The gymnastics superstar broke Tuesday in the all-around team competition and explained "facing his demons", after being replaced during the test.
Qualified for the individual all-around on Thursday, she is uncertain for the rest of the Games, where she was aiming for six Olympic titles.
Androdias and Boucheron, they did not ask a question.
At the start of the morning, this well-known duo since 2015 and already 2018 world champion and European champion (2018 and 2021) tore off to get ahead of the Netherlands and China, leading halfway through the race, despite their " worst "race of these Olympics, according to Boucheron.
But the two have put themselves "in hunting dog mode", he explained to get this title.
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After the disillusions of the "favorites" in recent days (triathlon, mountain biking), the French camp will focus its hopes on outsiders to hope to increase the medal count, mounted to eight (3 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze).
- Grousset in the 100 m freestyle final -
But it won't be in judo.
After a "grand slam", with four medals in four days of competition, Margaux Pinot (-70 kg), from her first fight, then Alex Clerget (-90 kg), in the second, failed on the tatami mats of Nippon Budokan on Thursday morning.
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120 km south of Tokyo, the "riders" are out around Mount Fuji with the time trial.
Juliette Labous, who had shown in the road race, finished ninth in an event won by the great Dutch favorite, Annemiek Van Vleuten.
In the afternoon, it will be Rémi Cavagna's turn to go to the Mount Fuji racing circuit.
The favorite will be the Italian Filippo Ganna, but the Auvergnat hopes to take advantage of a 44.2 km “not all flat” course with a positive elevation of 846 m to surprise.
In swimming, no chance of a medal since no Frenchman qualified for the day's finals.
But there was still good news with the qualification of Maxime Grousset for the final of the queen race, the 100 m freestyle.
He passed with the eighth fastest time in the semi-finalists and will start without pressure Thursday morning against the favorites, including the American Caeleb Dressel and the Russian Kliment Kolesnikov.
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Australian Ariarne Titmus took advantage of today's morning finals to secure her second title in Japan with the 200 freestyle, after the 400 freestyle on Monday.
She edged out Hong Kong's Siobhan Bernadette Haughey and Canada's Penny Oleksiak while five-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky disappointed and finished fifth.
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- The footballers on borrowed time -
At 32, Italian star Federica Pellegrini finished seventh in her fifth Olympic final in this event and will therefore not complete her extraordinary Olympic career with a final medal.
Ledecky consoled herself an hour later by dominating the 1500m as expected.
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In team sports, the French 3x3 basketball are in the semi-finals and therefore very close to a podium.
But they come up against the Americans who beat them in the opening (17-10).
The footballers are still far from thinking of the medal, them.
They play their future in their last group match against the Japanese.
André-Pierre Gignac, author of four goals in two matches, and his teammates obtained this reprieve thanks to a hat-trick of "APG" and a crazy end to the match against South Africa (4-3).
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The reprieve is also the situation of the volleyball players who rebounded against Tunisia on Monday (3-0) after an initial defeat against the United States.
It's Argentina's turn to come across the net.
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