Our favorites for 2024
Every Saturday until the Games, we invite you to meet one of our favorites for Paris 2024. The idea is to introduce you to athletes, to follow them as closely as possible in their preparation and to support them as long as possible in their Olympic dream.
Music has the gift of provoking strong emotions. A few notes that transport you or, in the case of Séraphine Okemba, undermine you. “Hearing the anthem of Australia or New Zealand from the stands gives me nightmares,” sighs the player of the French rugby sevens team. Because the notes from “Advance Australia Fair” and “God Defend New Zealand”, played in the event of the coronation of these Oceanian nations, remind us that she, and the Blues, have never managed to put “Marseillaise” in the playlist of a stage of the world circuit.
Because if its male counterpart won, at the beginning of March, in Los Angeles, the second tournament in its history, nineteen years after the first, the French women's team remains in search of a first historic success. The ambition is legitimate: the Tricolores, fourth last season, are currently in third place in the world hierarchy and have already taken silver, in Cape Town and Vancouver, and bronze, in Dubai. Without ever taking the last step.