This Sunday, the last day of the Games, the last 13 gold medals - as well as those in silver and bronze, of course - will be distributed.
For the French, the chances of getting on a podium - and adding other charms to the 32 already obtained - are essentially reduced to handball players.
The Bleues du hand also want their share of gold
A little less than 24 hours after the victory of the partners of Nikola Karabatic - not to mention that of the volleyball players as well as the silver medal of the basketball players and the bronze of the basketball players - the players of Olivier Krumbholz also want to participate in the party and in the beautiful tricolor harvest.
Already assured of leaving with a distinction around the neck thanks to their qualification for the final, they are aiming for the most beautiful and precious metal.
World (2003 and 2017) and European (2018) champions, the Blue have still not won Olympic gold.
Five years after their final lost in Rio against Denmark, the partners of Cleopatra Darleux will try to overcome the bad luck against the Russians from 8 am.
🗣️ "Now I just want the gold, we're almost there, there's only one game left ... it's going to be a long time!"
🤾 And one more final for French team sports 🇫🇷
After the hashtag #TousEnFinale, we launch #TousEnOR?
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Rayan Helal wants to surprise at Keirin
The finals of Keirin, a national sport in Japan, are played this Sunday with the presence of French sprinter Rayan Helal.
If he qualified brilliantly on Saturday for the quarter-finals of the tournament by finishing first in his series - unlike his accomplice SĂ©bastien Vigier who came out in the 8th - Helal is not among the favorites.
The first laps of the race on Saturday were contested in front of an enthusiastic crowd and the cheers of the Japanese volunteers of the organization.
The atmosphere promises to be boiling too this Sunday to encourage the Japanese trackers.
🇫🇷 🚴 Rayan Helal solid on the 1st turn of the keirin.
The Frenchman does his job in the last lap to win his series ahead of the German Maximilian Levy # Tokyo2020 #JeuxOlympiques
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Three Frenchmen attacking the marathon
It is a mythical, ancient, emblematic event. As tradition requires, this last day of the Games will be marked by the marathon event. Three French will be there at the start and will wear their soles: Morhad Amdouni, Hassan Chahdi and Nicolas Navarro. Their chances of a podium are slim. But it's a good story for Navarro, who reached the top level late, while working full-time as bicycle repairers in a major sports brand. Morhad Amdouni, tenth place in the 10,000m last Friday, will return to the asphalt of downtown Sapporo with a course spread over three loops, one long to start and two smaller to finish.
A few hours before the start of our Games!
The final preparations are underway.
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- Tony Estanguet - OLY (@TonyEstanguet) August 7, 2021
Our TV tip: the closing ceremony from 1 p.m.
It is an event eagerly awaited each time by athletes, who come together for a final communion, and also by viewers, hungry for a great show. After two weeks of festivities, records, exploits, joy but also sadness and disappointment, the closing ceremony of the Games takes place this Sunday, around 1 p.m. This ceremony will be marked by the transmission of the Olympic flag between Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo, Thomas Bach, President of the IOC, and Anne Hildago, Mayor of Paris where the next edition will take place in 2024. While karate will disappear from the Games Olympic Games in Paris 2024, the only French Olympic champion in his history Steven Da Costa has been appointed flag bearer for France. French artist Woodkid,composer of the song for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, will give a concert at the end of the ceremony.
The French engaged program
ATHLETICS
Marathon (H): Morhad Amdouni, Hassan Chahdi, Nicolas Navarro at midnight
TRACK CYCLING
Omnium (F): Victoire Berteau and Clara Copponi.
Scratch at 3:00 a.m., tempo at 3:45 a.m., elimination race at 4:26 a.m., points race at 5:25 a.m.
Keirin (H): Rayan HĂ©lal.
Quarter-finals at 3:24 a.m., semi-finals at 4:09 a.m., final at 5 a.m.
HANDBALL
Final (F), Russia-France at 08h00
