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At the bottom of the last step, before the final against Russia (this Saturday at 2.15pm), Laurent Tillie, the coach of the France volleyball team, allowed himself a brief relaxation:
“It's a small outcome. "
Him, the perfectionist, the eternal dissatisfied.
The Blues were playing much more than an Olympic semi-final on Thursday against Argentina.
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We had to hunt ghosts.
The technician opens his heart and turns with emotion the pages of the souvenir album of the tricolor volleyball: "
I had two frustrations as a player which weighed very heavily on my way of training and seeing my function of coach.
With the 1986 generation, we trained for a year and a half for the European Championship, we were completely amateurs.
We gave up everything, studies, work to have some type of American or Soviet training.
We dreamed of a medal and going to Bercy to play a semi-final and a final.
We got out before, we
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