The golden double of handball and volleyball and a mess of medals: the summary of the Blues' day at the Tokyo Olympics

A day that will go down in the annals for French collective sport. After the silver medal obtained by the basketball players, defeated against the United States in the final, the handball players and volleyball players won in their respective tournaments and brought back two gold medals to the tricolor delegation in the Tokyo Olympics. The Bleues du basket have gleaned a bronze charm thanks to their victory in the small final against Serbia, just like the trackers Benjamin Thomas and Donavan Grondin, tanned on the test of the American in track cycling.

With these five additional medals, the French Olympic team has 32 charms in total and remains in 10th place in the general classification.

His nine titles allow him to follow behind Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, respectively 7th, 8th and 9th in the medal table.

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The Blues of handball and volleyball at the top!

France vibrated on Saturday afternoon! Handball and volleyball players successively won the Olympic title within minutes of each other at the end of very high level finals. It was first of all

who collected the first gold medal of the day for the French delegation thanks to their victory against Denmark (25-23). The most beautiful revenge for the partners of Nikola Karabatic, beaten by these same Danes five years earlier in the final of the Games in Rio in 2016. The French team now has three Olympic titles (2008, 2012, 2020) and one title runner-up (2016). The three surviving "Experts" Nikola Karabatic, Luc Abalo and Michaël Guigou, present since 2008, become the best medalist handball players in thehistory of the Games.

❤ THEY DID IT !!!

The French handball team is Olympic champion!

The Blues trembled but overcame Denmark in a suspenseful match (25-23).

FA-BU-LEUX bravo boys!

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Barely recovered from their emotions, the French supporters quickly became passionate about

, forceps winners of a final that entered the legend of the Olympics against Russia (3-2). The Blues of Earvin Ngapeth, phenomenal throughout the meeting (26 points in total), thus won the first Olympic title in the history of French volleyball. A remarkable performance when the Habs had never reached the quarter-finals of the competition! Coach Laurent Tillie could not have dreamed of a better start with the biggest title in the discipline. The emblematic coach of the Blues will indeed leave office after the Games.

WHAT EMOTIONS !!

THE BLUES ARE OLYMPIC VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONS!

They did it, the Russians were back to 2 sets everywhere, the Blues never gave up!

Bravo Gentlemen

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A day in silver and bronze for French basketball

They have been the dream of the early morning sports fans, and those who had programmed an alarm clock at 4:30 am.

narrowly bowed against the best team in the world, the United States, in the Tokyo Olympics final last night (82-87). Despite the silver medal, Rudy Gobert was inconsolable, in tears, after the buzzer that delivered Americans. In front of the score almost the entire match, "Team USA" was contested until the end by brawling Blues, generous, but in the end a little too clumsy, especially on the free throw (62% success), to reverse the situation . As for the United States, star Kevin Durant was on a cloud (29 points) and the Brooklyn Nets player has a lot to do with Team USA's 16th crown at the Olympics.

⚡ The dream of an Olympic title has passed for the Blues!

An impressive Kevin Durant (29 pts, 6 rebounds) won 82-87 and won gold for the fourth time in a row # Olympic Games # Tokyo2020

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The female counterparts of our Blues

ended their adventure with a large victory in the small final of their tournament against Serbia (91-76) and won the bronze medal. The day after their worrying defeat against Japan in the semi-finals (71-87), the Blue got up perfectly to beat the Serbs who had deprived them of the European title at the end of last June. Sandrine Gruda (16 points) and Endy Miyem (14 points) led this French team to victory. It is the second medal in the history of French women's basketball, after silver in London in 2012.

Magnificent, the Blue won the match for the bronze medal thanks to a recital against Serbia.

A remarkable performance resulting in a prestigious success and above all a well-deserved bronze medal.

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Benjamin Thomas and Donavan Grondin, tanned pistards on the American

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played cunning to invite themselves to the third step of the podium of the American race, in track cycling, and therefore leave with a bronze charm. "If we had been a little cooler in the last sprint we could have done one or two, but it's already a medal and it's not nothing. These are the Olympic Games accomplished," responded Grondin (20 years old) . Benjamin Thomas (25), who had failed Thursday in his quest for a gold medal in the omnium (4th), had promised not to leave Japan without a medal. It is now done, and the two accomplices are already looking to the Paris Games in 2024.

France takes bronze on the Madison!

Benjamin Thomas and Donovan Grondin offer a 30th medal to the French delegation.

Denmark is Olympic champion ahead of Great Britain # Tokyo2020

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Other medals narrowly missed

The French delegation could even have won new medals in other disciplines. The great disillusionment of the day came from

, Olympic champion in Rio in 2016 in the show jumping competition and who finished only in 8th place in Tokyo. Yet first before the last passage, the French team cracked during the last relay from Pénélope Leprévost who was unable to complete the course with her horse. Another disappointment, in a single-seater canoe,

placed 4th just a few hundredths of a second behind Moldavian Serghei Tarnovschi, 3rd in the race. Finally, no medal either for the modern French pentathlon with the disappointing 7th place of

,first French in the final ranking.