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JO: Judo, mountain biking, basketball… 5 good reasons to wake up in the night from Monday to Tuesday

2021-07-26T16:27:37.412Z


The big day of Clarisse Agbegnenou, the Lecomte-Ferrand-Prévôt match, the entry of the Bleues du basket are on the program, in the night from Monday to Tuesday.


Basketball women, France-Japan (3h).


Les Bleues are finally launching their tournament.

First step, Japan: “

It's a crucial match, against the host country, with a lot of constraints, especially at 10 am.

But we are focused on the performance that we have to do.

Japan is a particular basketball country, a rising country.

They are fast players, a basketball in motion, a basketball that we are not used to facing,

”summarizes, suspicious, Valérie Garnier, coach of the France team.

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  • The full Olympic program

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Mountain biking, cross-country women (8h).


Two Frenchwomen carry the sign of favorite of the MTB event, Loana Lecomte, the sensation of the season and Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt, the experienced.

The technical, physical circuit pleases the Bleues.

In a discipline which has often been successful for the French since joining the Olympic program in 1996, the last Frenchwoman in gold is Julie Bresset, titled in 2012 in London.

Read also: Olympic Games: in mountain biking, the tandem ambition of Loana Lecomte and Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt

Judo, -63kg women (3h).


For Clarisse Agbegnenou, the day of glory has arrived. Or rather must arrive this Tuesday. The flag bearer is setting out to conquer her first Olympic title, she who won five world titles but had failed five years ago in the final in Rio. At 28, she is at the top of her game, having not lost since February 2019. And the one who had beaten her at the time, the Japanese Nami Nabekura, is not even in the Tokyo table. Suffice to say that all the lights seem green for Agbegnenou, who has already given voice in the dojo of Nippon Budokan to support his partners, including Amandine Buchard. The first gold medal of French judo in Tokyo must be for this Tuesday.

To read also: Clarisse Agbegnenou: "I have never forgotten those who told me that I was a useless dunce"

Surfing, men's quarter-finals (1h36).


The only Frenchman still in contention for the quarter-finals, Michel Bourez will face the Brazilian Gabriel Medina, double world champion on the pro circuit (2014 and 2018) and current world number 1, broken by the kind of waves of this place in the Pacific. .

Suffice to say that the 35-year-old Polynesian will have to achieve a real feat if he wants to continue his journey on a day where the semi-finals and the final will also take place, due to the approach of a storm over Japan and the Tokyo area.

Table tennis, men's singles (4h00).


Impossible mission. Opposed in the 3rd round to the Chinese Fan Zhendong, Emmanuel Lebesson will have to achieve a huge feat to hope to continue his journey. World number 1 at 24, the Chinese leaves only crumbs to his opponents with an extremely complete game. The only small argument against him, he discovered the Games and could be overtaken by the pressure. And if Lebesson manages to evolve to the level that allowed him to be European champion in 2016 ... Even so, it continues to seem impossible. All the more reason, no doubt, to watch, just in case.

Source: lefigaro

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