The French athletics team is not yet complete.
Installed in Kobe for a final stage, the Blues made their final adjustments there before joining the Olympic village.
The athletics events begin on July 30th.
But two athletes are missing.
According to information from L'Équipe, Carolle Zahi and Mouhamadou Fall, both members of the 4 x 100 m relays, had to postpone their departure to Japan.
According to the Federation, the 27-year-old sprinter would have been suspected of being a contact case.
She should join her teammates this Monday, July 26.
As for Mouhamadou Fall, he went to Dubai in mid-July, for "personal reasons", according to Florian Rousseau, performance director at the FFA.
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He did not respect the business plan that had been declared to the Japanese authorities.
As he did not respect it, everything had to be changed, especially since he came from a country where precautionary measures had to be taken.
It all shifted.
We had to change the whole business plan, its tests, etc.
He will join the team on July 31, ”added Rousseau.
Vicaut continues the care
Jimmy Vicaut, who had had to give up several competitions this season and in particular the French Elite Championships at the end of June in Angers due to muscle discomfort, he got there.
If his participation is "not in question" for the moment, according to the former Olympic track cycling champion, the European record holder in the 100 m "follows the care with a medical platform, he trains, He is running ".
Jimmy Vicaut is scheduled to take part in the main event series on July 31.
