France won the gold medal in team judo in a 4-1 victory over Japan, which has never been beaten in the discipline.
Judo therefore offers its eighth medal on the French palmares in these Olympic Games, France now having 18 gold medals.
To discover
The full Olympic program
The Olympic medal table
The French hardly trembled during these five fights.
A first victory for Clarisse Agbegnenou, Olympic champion -63kgs over ippon against Olympic champion -70kgs Chizuru Arai.
In a second fight, France made the break in this final where Axel Clerget in -90kgs was able to perfectly counter the attempt to overthrow his opponent.
The third round marks the first defeat of the Blues with Romane Dicko, who loses on a waza-ari then an ippon, 2-1.
In the Golden Score, boss Teddy Rinner won on a waza-ari against Aaron Wolf, Olympic champion of -100kgs, when the French competed in the category of + 100kgs.
France then leads 3-1 and Sarah Leonie Cysique enters and wins against Tsukasa Yoshida on a waza-ari.
Fabulous.