"Le Parisien" offers you before each weekend a selection of issues and events not to be missed in Île-de-France.
Overview of the one to come which starts with a bang this Friday evening with the basketball derby between Nanterre and Paris.
The poster: basketball derby in Nanterre
BASKETBALL.
The sports hall of Nanterre will be full and boiling.
The weekend will begin with a shock, a duel of neighbors as close geographically as they are distant in their DNA.
A family club and almost a century old (founded in 1927), Nanterre welcomes this Friday its young and ambitious neighbor from Paris Basketball, which was born in 2018 on the ashes of Hyères-Toulon.
Promoted to Elite this season, the capital club will discover the Nanterre hall for the first time with the aim of taking revenge after their loss (80-83) at home in the first leg.
Jean-Christophe Prat's players can count on the arrival of pivot DJ Funderburk, Amara Sy's medical freelancer, to create a surprise.
For its part, Nanterre will try to garner a 3rd success in a row and keep its place in the Top 8, synonymous with a ticket to the playoffs.
Sick and absent last week, Nantes coach Pascal Donnadieu is back.
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The question: can the Cergy Jokers overthrow Grenoble, which is leading 2-0 in the Magnus League semi-final?
ICE HOCKEY.
Christophe Cuzin, manager of the Jokers, has not given up at all: “Of course, the series is not over (
Editor’s note: the best of 7 meetings
)!
We are just two games behind our competitors (
losses 2-1 ap Wednesday and 7-2 Thursday
).
The two upcoming matches (
Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m.
) will be played at home where we enjoy strong support.
We had won our 3 home games against Amiens in the quarter-finals.
We know it won't be easy but we believe in our lucky stars.
We will play without pressure.
The goal is to come back to 2-2 on Sunday evening.
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The number: 5
RUGBY.
Like the number of rank successes at home for Stade Français in the Top 14 before the arrival of Union Bordeaux-Bègles, dolphin of Montpellier, on Saturday for one of the shocks of the 21st day which marks the return to the championship after the truce international.
This season, the Stadistes have transformed their Jean-Bouin enclosure into an almost impregnable citadel.
After starting their season at home with a 21-36 rout against their neighbors Racing 92, Gonzalo Quesada's players have had a string of good results: 8 wins in 9 receptions.
The last setback dates back to the arrival of Montpellier on November 6 (27-31).
Will the series continue this weekend?
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The place to go: the Musée de l'Homme celebrates sport
VISIT.
As part of its exhibition "Aux frontières de l'homme" (until May 30), the Musée de l'Homme (Paris 16th) is organizing a sporting and festive day this Saturday for all the curious with initiations, demonstrations and meetings .
As soon as you exit the metro, an athletics track welcomes visitors.
The day begins at 11:15 a.m. with a guided tour and will continue until 7 p.m. with numerous activities (discovery of sport in virtual reality, introduction to rock climbing or breakdance, etc.).
Round tables will also be organized with the presence of specialists and athletes such as the double world champion of taekwondo Gwladys Epangue.
Access to the exhibition is chargeable but all activities are free.
The event: the Martial Arts Festival at the Accor Arena
MARTIAL ARTS.
It has become an unmissable event for fans of Krav Maga, Kung Fu Wushu, Dragon and Lion Dance, Bulkempo or the now so popular MMA.
Canceled last year due to the health situation, the 35th edition of the Martial Arts Festival takes place this Saturday evening at the Accor Arena in Paris, the lair of spectacle sport in France.
To reward aficionados for their patience, the organizers have planned things big with numerous demonstrations lasting more than 3 hours, more than 300 practitioners on stage and the presence of icons of these disciplines including Jérôme Le Banner, the former tenor and kickboxing world champion.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
⭐ SPORT INFO ⭐
Did you know that the Martial Arts Festival has been coming back every year since the creation of the Arena in 1984?
🤔
He gives you an appointment on Saturday 26 for his 35th birthday 🥳 pic.twitter.com/fR5nQSqljm
— Accor Arena (@Accor_Arena) March 23, 2022
The player: Elohim Prandi of PSG handball
HANDBALL.
On January 1, Elohim Prandi was the victim of a violent stabbing (six stab wounds in the back) close to the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Quickly taken care of by the emergency room with “vital prognosis engaged”, as he explained to us at the beginning of March, the 23-year-old left-back of PSG and the French handball team was quickly released from the hospital and began his rehabilitation.
Three months later, Prandi could make a comeback on the pitch this weekend.
He is highly anticipated for the trip from PSG to Nancy on Sunday during the 21st day of Starligue.
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Good news for the club which announced this week that the Dane Mikkel Hansen, victim last week of phlebitis coupled with a pulmonary embolism, would be unavailable until the end of the season and would therefore no longer play a match under the Parisian colors.
The good plan: solidarity races in Île-de-France
SOLIDARITY RACES.
Among the many races that will take place this weekend on asphalt or paths in Île-de-France, some will combine sport and good deeds.
This is the case of the brain race in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which is a solidarity event against multiple sclerosis.
“The brain race is a solidarity race with compulsory collection, the aim of which is to raise public awareness of multiple sclerosis and to raise funds for research”, specifies the press release from the organizers.
Another solidarity event, the Strides of Insurance in the Bois de Boulogne (Paris XVI) which highlights the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
THE PROGRAM
BASKETBALL.
Betclic Elite
(24th day): NANTERRE - PARIS BASKETBALL (Friday 8 p.m., Maurice-Thorez sports hall);
BOULOGNE-LEVALLOIS - Fos/Mer postponed to April 4.
French Cup.
Quarter-finals
: BOULOGNE-LEVALLOIS - Strasbourg (Saturday, 3.30 p.m., Arena Loire de Trélazé).
Possible semi-final on Sunday.
HANDBALL.
Starligue
(21st day): Limoges - CRÉTEIL (Saturday, 8 p.m.);
Nancy - PSG (Sunday, 3 p.m.).
Proligue
(23rd day): MASSY - Besançon (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Coubertin sports center);
TREMBLAY - Valence (Friday, 8:30 p.m., sports hall);
Caen - IVRY (Friday, 8.30 p.m.);
Strasbourg - PONTAULT-COMBAULT (Friday, 8:15 p.m.).
ICE HOCKEY.
Magnus League
(playoffs).
Semi-finals:
CERGY-PONTOISE - Grenoble (match 3 on Saturday at 8:30 p.m., possible match 4 on Sunday at 6 p.m.) at Aren'Ice.
RUGBY.
Top 14
(21st day).
Stade Rochelais - RACING 92 (Saturday, 4 p.m.);
STADE FRANÇAIS - UBB (Saturday, 9:05 p.m., Jean-Bouin stadium).
National
(22nd day): Bourgoin-Jallieu - SURESNES (Saturday, 6.30 p.m.);
MASSY - Cognac-Saint-Jean-d'Angely (Sunday, 4 p.m., Jules-Ladoumègue stadium).
VOLLEYBALL.
Women's A League
(26th and last day of the regular season): Le Cannet - STADE FRANÇAIS PARIS SAINT-CLOUD (Saturday, 8 p.m.)
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