Complicated alarm clock from France for fans of the Games.
This Tuesday July 27 is once again placed under the sign of disillusionment.
In basketball, the French women's team was surprised at the start.
Ever more complicated Olympic Games for the French delegation in swimming.
Judo is, once again, the savior of the French Games with an imperial Clarisse Agbégnénou and qualified in the half.
We will summarize for you what happened last night in Tokyo.
Agbégnénou heading to the semi-finals
The day had started perfectly for Clarisse Agbégnénou. 20 seconds on the tatami and the tricolor flag carrier qualified for the quarter-finals in -63 kg. An express victory over ippon, of course, against Cape Verdean Sandrine Billiet. Her second fight went to the end of four minutes but the big favorite for Olympic gold never trembled against the Dutch Juul Franssen. Here is the five-time world champion qualified in the semi-final thanks to a waza-ari sufficient to win.
🥋⚡✨ The golden dream continues for Clarisse Agbegnenou!
After an expeditious first round, she won after four minutes against the Dutch Juul Franssen to reach the semi-finals # Tokyo2020 #Olympic
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Bonus bonus: A clear table for the gold medal.
The Japanese Miku Tashiro, double vice world champion and main rival of the Frenchwoman was eliminated in 1/4.
Next fight from 10 am to already secure a medal.
Basketball, a surprise defeat to begin with ...
Very bad news for the French basketball team.
The French, recent vice-champions of Europe, lost in their opening match at the Tokyo Games against the host country (70-74).
A surprise defeat against the theoretically weakest opponent in their pool.
A third consecutive setback against Japan after the Rio Olympics and a friendly match in 2016. The France team was moved by the all-terrain aggressiveness of the locals.
🏀🇯🇵⚡🇫🇷 A complicated start to the tournament for the Blue, who lost 74-70 against Japan, incredible three-point skill.
It will be necessary to resume Friday from 10:20 am against Nigeria # Tokyo2020 #JeuxOlympiques
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However, the band of Sandrine Gruda, excellent this morning (18 points, 9 rebounds) led the entire first part of the game even if the gap at halftime was still tight (36-34).
It took a catastrophic start to the third quarter (no basket in almost five minutes) to let the Japanese pass (39-47) and crack in the money-time.
The Blue will have to pull themselves together quickly!
Always so complicated for French swimming
Continuation of the competitions and still no medal in swimming. Worse, the French night only resulted in eliminations in the semi-finals. Charlotte Bonnet disappointed by not even winning her ticket for the final in the 200m freestyle. The Frenchwoman finished 6th in her half in 1′57′'35. It is not a surprise but it is the same observation for Cyrielle Duhamel. 6th in his 1/2 in 200m medley in 2′10′'84, the Olympic competition stops there. For the young Léon Marchand, these are the Learning Games. The 19-year-old tricolor finished in last place in his 1/2 in the 200m butterfly, in 1′55′'68.
🇫🇷Charlotte Bonnet fails in the semi-final of the 200m freestyle
La Niçoise finishes with the 6th fastest time in her semi-final (1.57.35)
🗣️ No French women for the final, tomorrow at 3:41 am # Tokyo2020 #Olympic
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Surfing, Table tennis ... The other eliminations
Two losses but no real surprise.
In surfing, Michel Bourez was taken out in the quarterfinals by the world number 1 in the discipline.
Defeat 13.66 to 15.33 for the Habs against the Brazilian Gabriel Medina.
“I knew he was going to release the big game: the big, powerful maneuvers and the hits.
Unfortunately, that was not enough ”, lamented Michel Bourez, already turned towards Paris 2024.
😔 In surfing, there is no longer any French 🇫🇷!
Michel Bourez unfortunately did not pass the quarter-finals.
He was eliminated by Gabriel Medina 🇧🇷, author of this magnificent flight # Tokyo2020 #JeuxOlympiques pic.twitter.com/5xFMZ9B3rn
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Another elimination in the face of the very best.
Emmanuel Lebesson bowed to the No. 1 seed in table tennis Zhendong Fan in four sets (11-3, 11-4, 11-3, 11-4).
“I think there is a bit of everything in this loss.
I gave a lot yesterday, and for three days, ”reacted the table tennis player.
The good performances to report
Excellent start to the Taekwondo tournament for Althéa Laurin.
The French European champion easily got rid of the Mexican Briseida Acosta in +67 kg (21-3).
In the quarterfinals, it should be much more difficult against China's Zheng Shuyin.
🇫🇷 The Frenchwoman Althéa Laurin, joined the 1/4 in taekwondo after a controlled fight against the Mexican Briseida Acosta (21-3).
At 19, she continues to impress and will take on world No.2 Shuyin Zheng 🇨🇳 in the quarterfinals.
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No medal in triathlon but a very nice 5th place for Léonie Periault.
The tricolor simply signs the best performance in Olympic history in the discipline for a Frenchwoman.
Periault did not do better than 6th place in an international competition.
The outcome was more cruel for Cassandre Beaugrand, victim of a puncture on a bicycle.
Osaka out of its Olympic tournament
This is perhaps the biggest surprise since the start of the Games.
At home, after lighting the Olympic flame, Naomi Osaka died in the eighth in the women's tennis table.
The world number 2 was sharply beaten in two sets (1-6, 4-6) and barely 1h10 of play, by the 42nd world Marketa Vondrousova.
And also…
- The very young swimmer Lydia Jacoby, new queen of the 100m breaststroke.
The 17-year-old American beat the odds in 1′04′'95, to beat South African Tatjana Schoenmaker, who had set the Olympic record the day before.
- A nice Russian double in the 100m backstroke.
Evgeny Rylov and Kliment Kolesnikov, the first to win the European record with a time of 51'98.
- Surprise in the men's table in surfing.
The world number 1 and winner of Michel Bourez, Gabriel Medina was eliminated by the local Kanoa Igarashi in the semifinals.
