Serbian Novak Djokovic back at the top of world tennis, 85th World Cup victory for American skier Mikaela Shiffrin, Frenchman Adam Siao Him Fa European figure skating champion, 20th day of Ligue 1… Find the most beautiful shots sportsmen of the weekend, through the work of photojournalists who roam the various sports grounds all over the world.
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Olivier JUSZCZAK
This Sunday, Montpellier revived against Auxerre, unlike Angers and Strasbourg, which are sinking into the relegation zone.
Montpellier managed to win (2-0), during a crucial meeting against AJA, a direct competitor which is sinking into the red zone.
Just like Strasbourg losing at home against Toulouse (2-1).
The situation is even more desperate in Angers, which chained a twelfth consecutive defeat, this time in Brest (4-0), another club in difficulty.
Nice, with a united collective and carried by a very good Kasper Schmeichel, beat Lille (1-0) Sunday at the Allianz Riviera, during the 20th day of L1, and confirms its renewed form since the dismissal of Lucien Favre.
Didier Digard and Nice have a third match without defeat.
Novak Djokovic won his tenth Australian Open on Sunday in Melbourne, equaling the record of 22 Grand Slam titles held by Rafael Nadal, and will return to world No.1 on Monday.
The 35-year-old Serb beat Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/5) in the final.
"This guy is incredible," raved Goran Ivanisevic, Novak Djokovic's coach, estimating that he had "2-3 years" left at the highest level, after his player's victory on Sunday at the Open. Australia.
"He comes from elsewhere, his brain works differently (..) the guy is incredible," added the coach.
“I have to pinch myself because I can't believe it.
Only my team knows what we've been through for the past four to five weeks.
That's why it's the best victory of my career!
said Djokovic, cup in hand and wearing a jacket with the number 22 already drawn on the chest.
By a few hundredths of a second, Lena Dürr beat Mikaela Shiffrin on Sunday in Spindleruv Mlyn (Czech Republic), the German delaying by a few weeks the 86th victory of the American who remains a success for the Swedish alpine ski legend, Ingemar Stenmark .
Already winner the day before, the Swiss Marco Odermatt flew over the second super-G in the Dolomites resort this Sunday.
His status as world N.1 confirmed, the super-G globe almost in his pocket and reassured about the state of his left knee, Marco Odermatt, can now project himself on the Courchevel / Méribel Worlds (February 6-19) where he can continue his victorious harvest.
Marseille and Monaco parted company in a 1-1 draw on Saturday in the 20th day of L1, a result which interrupts Marseille's fine winning streak but keeps both teams' podium ambitions alive.
OM would have especially wanted to obtain a penalty on a tackle from Maripan on Kolasinac in the area, which did not move the video assistants, to the great anger of Pablo Longoria and Igor Tudor.
“For me, it's a penalty and a clean red.
It's the biggest mistake I've seen since there was VAR in football.
It's something inexplicable and unacceptable,” said the Olympian coach at a press conference.
Despite a clear domination, Lens waited for the last minutes to snatch the draw (1-1) at Troyes, Saturday during the 20th day of L1.
It was winter rookie Adrien Thomasson who gave RCL a point by equalizing in the 88th minute.
Yasser Larouci had opened the scoring against the run of play just after halftime (50th).
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, world 5th, won the Australian Open, her first Grand Slam title, on Saturday, beating Kazakh and world 25th Elena Rybakina 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the final in Melbourne.
After having failed three times in the Grand Slam semi-finals, she has finally won her Grail!
With this title, Sabalenka (24) will regain second place in the world on Monday, the best ranking of her career.
Rybakina, 23 and Wimbledon champion last year without WTA points distributed, will climb to 10th in the world, also her best ranking.
The 16th day of the Top 14 on Saturday reserved its share of surprises, in the absence of the Blues gathered in Capbreton.
The Stade Français, runner-up to Toulouse, fell at the Perpignan red lantern, Castres and Bayonne retained their invincibility at home, and Clermont lost in Lyon.
Toulon, after two defeats in a row, for its part dominated Pau (27-16), which continues to lose and can be worried about its end of the season.
Richard Jouve did not miss the return of the cross-country skiing World Cup to France after six years of absence!
The Frenchman won the classic style sprint of Les Rousses on Saturday ahead of the star of the discipline, the Norwegian Johannes Klaebo.
He offered his fourth victory on the world circuit, the second of the winter after his success in Beitostolen (Norway), already in the classic sprint, in December.
In the absence of Russian skaters, Georgian Anastasiia Gubanova was crowned European figure skating champion ahead of Belgian favorite Loena Hendrickx on Saturday in Espoo (Finland).
Despite a hitch on a triple flip, Gubanova, already in the lead after the court, won the free program, approaching 200 points in total (199.91).
The day before, Frenchman Adam Siao Him Fa, 21, was crowned European figure skating champion for the first time in his career, Friday in Espoo (Finland).
France had been waiting for a continental title in the men's category since 2011 and Florent Amodio's gold.
All the technical elements of his free program did not go perfectly in the first part of the choreography, but Siao Him Fa, who skated to music by Woodkid, later freed himself.
On Friday, the France team qualified for the World Handball final by beating European champion Sweden at home (31-26), in Stockholm.
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