Tuesday August 3 - Day 11
The French of the day
That's it, the French handball players are entering the knockout phase of their Olympic Games with a quarter-final more than their reach, the men of Guillaume Gilles will indeed face the modest team of Bahrain. In the event of a qualification, they will find Egypt or Germany in the semi-final on their way. Same program for basketball players who will play their quarter-final against Italy. Here again we hope that there will be no hiccups in the wheels and that the qualifying will go cream. And as long as we do, we will continue with another quarter-final, that of the French volleyball players against Poland. There, a victory would be a miracle. In athletics, we will find our national Renaud Lavillenie, engaged in the pole vault final against the immense favorite Armand Duplantis. What else can you advise? Ah yes,Alexis Jandard's semi-final in the 3m springboard pool.
The star of the day
We spoke to you quickly above, Mondo Duplantis will enter the pole vault final with, of course, the objective of winning gold against his competitor and friend Renaud Lavillenie.
If the Frenchman believes in his chances of beating the new star of the discipline, he will have to show a level of crazy, knowing that Duplantis has never jumped under 6 m this year.
He even slammed an incredible 6.10m, which is still the best perf of the year in the discipline.
The medal we want to believe in
Besides Lavillenie, our athletic fanatic eyes will also be on Alexandra Tavernier, who is engaged in the hammer throw final and who has real hopes for a medal.
If she qualified a little dirty (by her own admission), the Frenchwoman has since ensured that she had a big margin of progress and that her throw at 73.51 in the half was promising for the future.
Come on, there's more to Alexandra!
Reading tip of the day
Gold medalist in the night from Sunday to Monday, the Frenchman Jean Quiquampoix worked like a dog after his "failure" in Rio where he had won only the silver.
To no longer experience such a disappointment, the Frenchman ate the shot morning, noon and night, with the result we know.
Our special correspondent Julien invites you to come back to this quasi-military preparation that the Parisian has been inflicting on himself for five years.
Sport
Olympic Games Tokyo 2021: 300,000 cartridges and simulations of the final in video, how Quiquampoix went from silver to gold in five years
Sport
France Volleyball Team
France Handball Team
France Basketball Team
Renaud Lavillenie
Olympic Games
Tokyo Olympics 2021