Huge disappointment for Ana Filip, Migna Touré, Laetitia Guapo and Marie-Eve Paget.
They will not be on the first Olympic podium in the history of women's 3 x 3 basketball.
In the match for 3rd place, synonymous with a bronze medal, the French lost to the Chinese reigning world champions by a score of 14 to 16.
In the semifinals, the Habs were narrowly inclined to the United States 18-16 in the dying minutes of the match.
An end of controversial meetings with a highly contested arbitration decision in the money-time.
A ball hit by the American Plum and that the referees did not return to Les Bleues despite the request of the video challenge which seemed to confirm the return to French possession.
Very marked after this defeat, appeared with reddened eyes with tears in the mixed zone, the French women will therefore not have managed to get an Olympic medal.
Hold your head up girls!
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Congratulations on your journey.
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In the history of the Olympic Games, France has 3 medals in 5 x 5 basketball: the men in 1948 and 2000 and the women in 2012. The appointment is made in Paris in 2024 for the 3 x 3, a discipline that seduced by its spectacle and its intensity.
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