Wednesday August 5 - Day 12

The French of the day

We are entering the money-time for team sports at the Tokyo Olympics and logically, like the day before, we will keep a close eye on everything that is played with a ball - except football, where we have long since disappeared. Honor to women's sport in both basketball and handball: the former will face Spain (2 p.m.) and the latter will play the Netherlands (1.45 p.m.). In short, it will be difficult but we believe in it. In athletics, we will watch the halfs of Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and Aurel Manga over 110 m hurdles. The latter had made a rather good impression by beating his personal record in the playoffs. Then maybe ? On Wednesday, we will also have to turn to the skatepark, where the youngest member of the delegation, Madeleine Larcheron, will be at work to distill us her most beautiful pirouettes on board. Finally, Mathilde Gros,double European champion in keirin, will be expected in qualifying for the specialty.

The star of the day

She is also French.

Finally there.

Kevin Mayer and the decathlon make their appearance in Tokyo.

The pressure on the shoulders of our beautiful national kid, the only real chance of a gold medal in athletics, is enormous.

Channeling the pressure will also be the biggest challenge facing the world record holder in the discipline.

It will be vital for him not to let himself be overtaken by the event in order to do better than in Rio, where he went to get the money.

But at the time, he did not have the same status.

Today he is a favorite.

For him, it is gold and nothing else.

The medal we want to believe in

What if Quentin Bigot was going to get us a medal in the hammer throw final?

The Frenchman qualified with the fourth best mark, making him a legitimate contender for the medal, if indeed the vice-world champion in the specialty needs it to be considered a medalist.

The reading tip of the day

The first days of the athlete delighted us, with the added bonus of several world records which have really exploded.

The latest, that of the 400 m hurdles, went up in smoke in the Tokyo sky like a vulgar record from Creuse.

With a common question: are today's soles the polyurethane of yesterday?

Sport

Olympic Games 2021 - Athletics: The speed of the track, the magic peaks… Why do the records fall one after the other?

  • Sport

  • Tokyo Olympics 2021

  • Olympic Games

  • Japan

  • Basketball

  • Handball

  • Kevin mayer