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Olympic Games: French basketball, volleyball and handball teams make football forget about it

2021-08-02T16:33:10.902Z


With five representatives in the quarter-finals, the basketball-hand-volleyball triptych managed a nice full card in Tokyo, far from the disastrous course of the French football team.


Five years ago, in Rio, handball alone carried the colors of France on the Olympic podiums with a silver double from the men's and women's teams.

A superb performance, which confirmed the pedestal on which the discipline then stood in the panorama of collective sport in France.

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Since then, the practice dear to Jackson Richardson and the Barjots has lost some of its splendor, but not of its ambition.

Especially since to remain the boss of team sports in France, handball has no right to be missed since basketball is picking up the hair of the beast, while volleyball, which relies only on its sector male, defeated the ghost of Rio by crossing the hurdle of the group stage.

Or a perfect five out of five for BHV, far from the disaster of football (eliminated in the first round).

For what will be his last competition as coach of the France volleyball team, after eight years of very good and loyal service having

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Source: lefigaro

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