Gracenote, a virtual medal table of Olympic results, ranks France in third position behind the United States and China this year. France would win 55 medals, including 28 gold, the essential criterion for deciding between nations at the Olympic Games, 19 silver, and 8 bronze.
This is slightly better than during the last update of the virtual table, carried out at the end of February, where Gracenote awarded 52 medals for 27 titles to the French. The tricolors would achieve this historic performance thanks to a new double for its women's and men's handball teams, the Olympic title of fencer Romain Cannone in the epee, the coronations of Teddy Riner and Clarisse Agbégnénou in judo, or thanks to the swimmer Léon Marchand, credited with two gold charms and one silver medal. But how likely is this scenario? France would point ahead of the Netherlands, fourth with 18 titles, and Great Britain. The latter would win, as it stands, as many gold medals as Australia and Japan but would be ahead of them due to a greater number of silver medals.