Basketball at the Parc des Expositions in Paris is (already) over.
While, as revealed by Le Parisien on March 10, 2022, the exchanges between the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Cojo) and the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) were increasingly tense, the parties reached an agreement.
The site of hall 6 of the Parc des Expositions, which was to host the preliminary phase of the Olympic tournament, is officially abandoned.
If at the end of 2021, Fiba was impatient and expressed its concerns on various technical points, the controversy has mounted in recent days when certain French internationals, including Evan Fournier, had expressed their anger when they discovered pictures from the site.
Initially scheduled at the Accor Arena (like the final phase), the group matches were moved to Hall 6 at Porte de Versailles, after a site review in October 2021. And a game of musical chairs, with the transfer swimming races at La Défense Arena and, by extension, that of gymnastics at Bercy.
Basketball will therefore have to find a new room for its group stage.
As a reminder, from the quarter-finals, the tournament will take place at the Accor Arena in Bercy.