Like his companions from the glorious days of Experts Michaël Guigou and Luc Abalo, Nikola Karabatic is not the type to miss an Olympic final.
But, be careful, not to watch her comfortably seated in her chair.
No, the Paris-SG player likes to experience them on the pitch.
Without feeling the slightest weariness.
We must therefore go back to 2004, in Athens, to find traces of a final of the Games without the French handball team, and therefore without its "
lucky charm
", in the words of his teammate Hugo Descat.
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This Saturday, at the stroke of 2 p.m. (9 p.m. local time), Karabatic will therefore play, at the age of 37, his fourth consecutive Olympic final, the second against Denmark, who had deprived him five years ago at Rio, with an unprecedented triple crown in a row at the Games.
Indeed, if the third was the bad one, the first two, in Beijing, in 2008, and in London, in 2012, were great and frank successes.
On the other hand, the fourth, it seemed far from certain
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