The emotion of the American Mikaela Shiffrin by equaling the record of 82 victories in the Ski World Cup of her compatriot Lindsey Vonn, the victorious French biathlon in the mixed relay, the victories of the "little ones" in the Coupe de France football and Didier Deschamps at the head of the Blues until 2026... Find the most beautiful sports shots of the weekend, through the work of the photojournalists who travel the various sports grounds all over the world.
Thanks to the press agencies, always on the front line to cover major sporting events, and to the journalists of the editorial staff of "20 Minutes", here is another look, in pictures, at sports information.
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Olivier JUSZCZAK
France won the mixed relay on Sunday at the Biathlon World Cup event in Pokljuka (Slovenia).
The French relay composed of Fabien Claude, Quentin Fillon Maillet, Anais Chevalier-Bouchet, Julia Simon beat Italy (2nd) and Sweden (3rd).
In the absence of brothers Johannes and Tarjei Boe and Sturla Laegreid on the Norwegian side, France seized their chance to win this first mixed relay of the season.
"Crazy day" for Delphine Claudel, who became the first French cross-country skier to win the World Cup this Sunday by winning at the top of the terrible climb of Alpe Cermis, in Val di Fiemme (Italy), the final stage of the Tour ski.
At 26, the Vosgienne is writing a page in the history of the French fund.
American Mikaela Shiffrin equaled compatriot Lindsey Vonn's record of 82 World Cup victories by winning the second giant slalom in Kranjska Gora on Sunday.
Shiffrin, who had failed to reach this record on Saturday by finishing 6th on the same track, was ahead of the Italian Federica Brignone by 77 hundredths and the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami by 97 hundredths.
Performing very young (first victory at 17) and very moved this Sunday on the podium, the skier from Vail (Colorado) joins Vonn on the list of winners at only 27 years old.
She directly threatens the absolute record of Swede Ingemar Stenmark (86) and could set the bar at an unthinkable height if she extends her prolific career for several years.
Victor Muffat-Jeandet, hospitalized in Switzerland on Saturday after a violent fall during the giant slalom in Adelboden, “underwent successful surgery for a broken nose,” the French Ski Federation said on Sunday.
Author of a promising first run on Saturday with the 7th fastest time despite his bib number 21, Victor Muffat-Jeandet had fallen heavily at the start of the second after being unbalanced on a bump, ending in the nets after hitting the track with the head.
More acrobatic than ever on rutted snow, the ski king Marco Odermatt offered himself a second victory in a row on Saturday in the giant Adelboden (Switzerland), knocking out the race for the big globe a little more.
Leading the first heat despite his number 6 bib, the world No. 1 also dominated the second to conquer at only 25 his 17th success in the World Cup and 6th this winter, making more than 24,000 spectators exult in the arrival area, drowned in a sea of Swiss flags.
Struggling since the start of the season, and still ninth the day before, Quentin Fillon Maillet finally got on his first podium of the winter at the end of the pursuit in Pokljuka (Slovenia) won alone by Johannes Boe.
Starting in ninth position, more than 1' 20” behind Boe, and just 30 seconds from the podium, QFM took advantage of a 19 out of 20 shooting to get a place there during the tenth individual race of the winter: he finished second, 1'04” 9/10th behind the irresistible Norwegian.
Despite a left thigh scare in the semi-finals on Saturday and a match point against him saved in the final on Sunday, Novak Djokovic won his first title of the year in Adelaide, Australia, beating in the final American Sebastian Korda 6-7 (8/10), 7-6 (7/3), 6-4, and will arrive at the Australian Open in eight days.
The coach of the French handball team, Guillaume Gille, selected this Sunday for the World Cup which begins on Wednesday in Poland the same group of 18 players as that selected for the last preparation match, Saturday against Egypt in Orléans ( 33-32).
Gille had to face this week the injury packages of Kyllian Villeminot (knee) and Benoît Kounkoud (foot), which automatically reduced his group to 18 elements.
For each World Cup match, he will have to leave two players in the stands.
Real Madrid, level on points with Barcelona at the top of La Liga, missed the chance to temporarily take sole command on Saturday, losing 2-1 at Villarreal, despite a Karim Benzema goal from the penalty spot.
Fans of FC Olympique Strasbourg Koenigshoffen 1906 (Regional 1, 6th division) created a sensation by beating (0-0, 4 pens to 3) Clermont, 9th in Ligue 1, on Saturday in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France.
In front of 3,000 spectators massed in the small Emile-Stahl stadium, the Strasbourg residents held the 0-0 without ever really suffering despite the five divisions difference and it was Samuel Kekambus who scored the winning goal after a breathless session and thus sent the Alsatian amateur club to the round of 16.
Nice, finalist of the last edition, was eliminated on Saturday as soon as it entered the running in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France by losing 1-0 on the lawn of Puy, 16th and relegated to National.
Rodez, a modest Ligue 2 resident currently relegated, also created a surprise by winning on penalties against Monaco (2-2, 5 pens to 4) after being led 2-0 on Saturday in the 32nd cup final of France at the Stade Louis-II.
Hyères midfielder (N2) Almike Moussa N'Diaye, injured on Saturday by Marseille's Eric Bailly, was transported to the North Hospital of Marseille where he was admitted to the intensive care unit, AFP reported. the president of the Var club Mourad Boudjellal.
Ten against eleven for more than an hour after the exclusion of Marseille, OM qualified without too much shaking on Saturday for the round of 16 of the Coupe de France by beating Hyères 2-0.
In search of a victory against Toulouse since September 2019, La Rochelle took revenge with style by bringing down the championship leader (30-7), ending a negative series of eight losses in a row.
Former international and winner of the Six Nations Tournament in 2010, Morgan Parra will retire at the end of the 2022-2023 financial year.
The scrum half, who arrived at Stade Français last summer, will join the next staff of the Parisian club.
The contract of Didier Deschamps at the head of the France team has been extended until 2026, announced the coach of the Blues during the General Assembly of the French Football Federation on Saturday in Paris.
Arriving at the controls of the France team in 2012, the technician was at the end of his contract at the end of the World Cup in Qatar where the Blues reached the final, won by Argentina.
Cameroonian Modeste M'Bami, a former PSG and Marseille midfielder, died at the age of 40 in Le Havre, sports agent Franck Belhassen announced on Saturday.
According to sports daily
L'Equipe
, the former player succumbed to a heart attack.
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