Less than a week before the start of the competition, Europe 1 takes stock of Euro 2021. The Blues are announced as the big favorites of the competition, but must prepare to start on the hats of wheels against teams of size.

In terms of health, the risk of transmission of Covid in the stadiums is worrying.

Which football Euro are we going to attend?

While the kickoff will be given on Friday by a Turkey-Italy, the question deserves to be asked in the face of this unprecedented competition format: matches in ten cities in ten different countries.

But also with the sword of Damocles weighed by the Coivd-19 epidemic, despite a significant improvement in the health situation over a large part of the continent.

Finally, let's not forget the sporting issue, insofar as the France team is announced as the big favorite of this edition.

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Why is the France team given favorite?

If we trust the bookmakers, the Blues, world champions, have every chance of getting on the first step of the podium of this Euro 2021. A prognosis that seems to support the level of the players, and their experience as a collective.

Five other teams, however, will have their say and risk giving them a hard time: England, Germany, Spain, Belgium, and let's not forget the defending champion Portugal.

And then France will have to start foot to the ground, which is not always its strong point.

The Blues will start against Germany, followed by Portugal then Hungary.

In other words, it will be necessary to be 100% straight away.

We remember that at the last World Cup, the first matches were sluggish.

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Why is there a risk for the transmission of the virus? 

But this Euro will also be thousands of spectators in the stadiums, who travel from Azerbaijan to England, with a significant risk of the virus spreading.

"The particularity of these international sporting events is precisely the mixing of populations and therefore of variants", points out to Europe 1 Benjamin Davido, infectious disease specialist at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches.

“Even if we have 20 times less risk of getting contaminated outdoors than indoors, the risk exists,” recalls this specialist.

And the competitive context, the celebrations that accompany it, could increase the threat.

"There are situations where we want, in a moment of emotion, to meet, to hug, to kiss. We shout, we sing. And we know, the risk of transmission of virus varies according to the number of decibels and the duration of the contact ", underlines Benjamin Davido.

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Why have some matches been moved?

Each stadium will have a gauge, usually to accommodate 15,000 to 20,000 people. But in Budapest, for example, the stadium will be full with 67,000 people. This is a consequence of the pressure exerted by UEFA which threatened to exclude from the organization the host cities which refuse to host the public. This is how Bilbao was replaced by Sevilla, and the matches scheduled in Dublin moved to St. Petersburg.