Basketball, handball, volleyball, rugby… “Le Parisien” has been offering for a few weeks and before each weekend, a selection of the challenges and events not to be missed in Île-de-France.
Overview.
Top tip: Creole atmosphere at Paris basketball
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It will be show this weekend at the Halle Carpentier.
Before moving to the Accor Arena next weekend for an eventful match against Monaco, Paris Basketball will transform its traditional Parisian hall into a party venue… with a Creole atmosphere.
Saturday, on the occasion of the arrival of Bourg-en-Bresse, during a match of the 23rd day of Betclic Élite, the club will honor the riches of Caribbean culture.
On the program of the evening many activities with, in particular, dances proposed by Bagay Ka Brennen - a Caribbean carnival troupe - and a refreshment bar with traditional products - planter (without alcohol), bokits, sausage rougaille... Kévin Séraphin, former player NBA and the France team, will distill the meeting with his expert comments.
The figure: France to the power of 4
Like the number of French players to be present, this Saturday, in the last four of the “Grand Paris Sud Est Avenir” tournament which is being played at the Duvauchelle stadium in Créteil.
All are players of the future: Martin Breysach (20 years old) will face Clément Tabur (22 years old), while Axel Garcian (19 years old) will challenge Sean Cuenan (18 years old,) who fought for 3h05, in the quarter-finals, to get rid of the Vietnamese Lý Hoàng Nam.
The final will be played on Sunday.
Launched this year, this meeting is only the second "M15" tournament (whose prize pool is $15,000, i.e. the entry level of professional tournaments) in the Ile-de-France region after that in Plaisir (Yvelines).
Suffice to say that it is awaited by the many fans of the little yellow balls in Ile-de-France.
In addition, a demonstration of wheelchair tennis will be offered this Saturday at 1 p.m. as a curtain raiser for the semi-finals.
The sentence: “Basketball serves as my outlet”
The welcome promises to be moving and warm for Viatcheslav “Boby” Bobrov.
While his country, Ukraine, has suffered attacks and bombardments from the Russian army for two weeks, the new interior of Nanterre is playing, this Saturday against Cholet, its first match under its new colors at the Palais des Sports Maurice- Thorez.
In front of the eyes of his companion and his baby who were still on the roads of the exodus last week during his preliminary match at Gravelines.
“Basketball was never a job for me, it was a passion, told us the Ukrainian international.
Now it's like a medicine, a way of escaping, it serves as an outlet.
I can smile, think of something else, the time of a match.
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Before the match, the club and the association Heart of Ukraine will organize a collection of donations - financial and material, exempted clothing - to support the populations.
Stands will be provided for this purpose at each entrance to the sports hall.
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The poster to follow: PSG - Nantes in handball
It's the shock of the second part of the Starligue season, and perhaps the last chance for the Nantes people to still believe in the title against the Parisians.
The latter, absolutely impeccable since the start of the season (19 wins in… 19 games) have an eight-point lead over the Loire-Atlantique runner-up.
Suffice to say that a new victory, while the competition will be two-thirds, will sound almost like the death knell for the interest of this championship.
Except here it is: Nantes is a bit of the black cat of PSG.
In the first leg, last December, Nikola Karabatic and his teammates fought to win there by a small goal (30-29).
And above all, the Nantes are the last to have brought down the players of the capital in the league, and it was at Coubertin, in April (25-24).
A small odds, therefore, for bettors who like risks.
The event of the weekend: Cergy-Pontoise - Amiens in ice hockey
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Opening night on the ice of Aren'Ice.
For the first time in their recent history the Jokers, nickname of the hockey players of Cergy-Pontoise, won their sesame for the Grand 8 of the Magnus League.
Fourth in the regular season, they begin the quarter-finals of the playoffs with two home games against Amiens, this Friday and Saturday.
A best-of-seven series.
The club offers many activities to its supporters from 7:30 p.m.
What to warm up before the show and the shocks on the ice from 8:30 p.m.,
The champion to watch: Rénelle Lamote
At 28, the triple European silver medalist in the 800 meters is taking part in the French Cross-Country Championships this weekend in Les Mureaux (78).
The former athlete from the Pays de Fontainebleau, who then left to train near Montpellier, returned to a club in the Ile-de-France, Paris Racing Multi Athlon.
This Saturday (5:30 p.m.), she should logically win the mixed relay (6300 m), alongside Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad (triple Olympic medalist in the 3,000 m steeplechase), Johanna Geyer-Carles and Erwan Benech.
"I can't wait to get back to the adrenaline of competition, cross country is a superb physical and mental exercise to prepare for the summer season", says the native of Coulommiers.
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The discovery of the weekend: the Open de France Xtreme canoe-kayak in Vaires-sur-Marne
Extreme slalom, you know?
If you liked, at the last Winter Games in Beijing, the races with several people where you have to start off a ramp and then sprint hard, then this is for you.
This practice, which will appear at the Paris 2024 Games as a new slalom event, is the spectacular combination of all the disciplines in whitewater canoeing.
The FFCK is organizing this weekend (from 9 a.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Sunday) the first gathering of the year for the Open de France Xtreme.
This event will bring together on the Olympic and Paralympic Nautical Stadium of Vaires-sur-Marne, several renowned athletes, such as the current vice-world champion in extreme slalom Benjamin Renia, the para-canoe champion Nélia Barbosa, the star of the extreme kayak Nouria Newman or members of the Collectif France de slalom.
Last precision: contact is authorized and the athletes do not hesitate to jostle to win...
👀Event!
European Canoe-Kayak Freestyle Championship!🚣♂️ @FF_CanoeKayak
See you from 12:30 p.m. for the finals with @RichefortX at 🎙️ pic.twitter.com/BvoOHmAxXp
– Sport in France (@sport_en_france) October 9, 2021
The program
BASKETBALL
.
Betclic Elite:
BOULOGNE - LEVALLOIS - Orléans (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Palais des Sports Marcel-Cerdan in Levallois);
PARIS - Bourg-en-Bresse (Saturday, 8 p.m., Halle Carpentier);
NANTERRE - Cholet (Saturday, 8 p.m., Palais des Sports Maurice-Thorez).
CANOE-CAYAK
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Xtreme French Open
: from 9 a.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Sunday, at the Olympic and Paralympic Nautical Stadium in Vaires-sur-Marne.
ICE HOCKEY.
Magnus League,
quarter-finals of the playoffs: CERGY-PONTOISE - Amiens (Friday and Saturday, 8.30 p.m., Aren'Ice).
HANDBALL.
Starligue:
CRETEIL - Saran (Friday, 8 p.m., Palais Des Sports R. Oubron);
PSG - Nantes (Sunday, 4 p.m., Salle Pierre-de-Coubertin).
Proligue:
IVRY - Besançon (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Auguste-Delaune gymnasium);
PONTAULT-COMBAULT - Sélestat (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Espace Boisramé);
TREMBLAY - Strasbourg (Friday, 8.30 p.m., sports hall);
Angers-MASSY.
RUGBY.
National:
SURESNES - Soyaux-Angoulême (Sunday, 3 p.m.);
Nice-MASSY.
TENNIS
.
ITF “Grand Paris Sud Est Avenir” tournament in Créteil.
Semi-finals: Saturday 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.;
final: Sunday, 2:30 p.m.
Dominique Duvauchelle Stadium.
VOLLEYBALL.
League A:
Nice - PARIS (Friday, 8 p.m.);
LE PLESSIS-ROBINSON - Narbonne (Saturday, 6 p.m., Espace Omnisports).
Women's A League:
STADE FRANCAIS PARIS SAINT-CLOUD - Vandoeuvre-Nancy (Saturday, 8 p.m., Geo-André gymnasium).