Many of them pushed behind their screens, but it was not enough.
The handball Bleues, beaten on Sunday by Norway (22-29) in the World Cup final in Spain, were followed at the end of the day by 4.3 million viewers on TF1, announces the first channel on Monday morning.
A very good score, which enabled the free-to-air broadcaster to record 26.2% of audience share.
beIN Sports, which also broadcast the meeting of Grâce Zaadi and its partners, has not yet communicated the number of people who have followed the match on its antenna.
The players of Olivier Krumbholz, crowned Olympic champions this summer in Tokyo, are doing a little better than in their previous final against the same Scandinavians a year ago.
In December 2020, the Blue had already attracted 4.04 million viewers for their last duel of the Euro, lost 22-20.
The match had already been broadcast on TF1, which then enjoyed 21.4% audience share.
To find traces of a better audience for the French women's handball team, we must go back to their continental coronation of 2018 against Russia.
5.39 million people had followed this French success (24-21) on the first channel, with even a peak at 8.1 million viewers at the end of the meeting.