A new sports weekend, excluding football.
"Le Parisien" invites you to analyze and decipher the results of the main clubs in Ile-de-France.
The performance of the weekend: Racing outclasses Sale
RUGBY.
The last four of this Champions Cup will therefore be very Franco-centred.
After qualifying in Toulouse and La Rochelle, it's Racing 92's turn to reach the semi-finals of the biggest European competition.
On Sunday, the Ciel et Blancs swept the English team from Sale (41-22) in the quarter-finals on their home ground at Paris La Défense Arena.
VICTOIIIRRREEEEEEEE
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The Sky and White win and go to the semi-finals 🔥
CONGRATS @SaleSharksRugby for a huge game!!!!!
🏉Racing 92 v @staderochelais
Your tickets 🎟️ https://t.co/G6JqLbzuss#R92vSAL #RacingFamily pic.twitter.com/k0Ki5t8Bix
— Racing 92 (@racing92) May 8, 2022
Full-back Max Spring completed Racing 92's work with a final try in the dying minutes.
But it was Teddy Thomas who scored the most acrobatic try, flirting with the touchline like a tightrope walker.
In the last four, the Racingmen will cross swords with the Rochelais, who defeated Montpellier (31-19) on Saturday.
For this semi-final, the two French clubs will face each other in Lens
The coronation: PSG offers itself an 8th rank trophy
HANDBALL.
The shock was expected as the possible consecration of the Parisians.
Friday evening, in their den of Coubertin, the PSG handball players offered the scalp of Montpellier (37-33) to become champions of France for the 9th time in their history, the 8th in a row.
It's done 😃!
Paris wins its 9th title of Champion of France, the 8th consecutive, at the end of this 25th day of Liqui Moly StarLigue.
What a journey!
And it's not finished yet !
pic.twitter.com/xk3oJFNMfq
– PSG Handball (@psghand) May 6, 2022
If the collective of players from the capital made the difference in the second half, Mathieu Grébille (5 goals) stood out particularly in hot moments for PSG.
On the other side of the field, Yann Genty (11 saves) also did the job.
From now on, the Parisians are expected in the Champions League with the reception of Kiel, Wednesday (8:45 p.m.), for a place in the semi-finals.
The show: the Accor Arena vibrated
mma.
Two years after a first event celebrating MMA in France, where the discipline has only been legal since January 2020, Bellator (second largest structure behind the UFC) organized a gala evening on Friday at the Accor Arena in Bercy.
To celebrate, France's MMA pioneer Cheick Kongo headlined a fight against American Ryan Bader for the world heavyweight championship belt.
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The last time the two men had clashed, a No Contest (stoppage of the referee) had been decreed after a finger in the eye received by the tricolor veteran (46 years old).
In front of more than 11,000 spectators, Cheick Kongo therefore had the opportunity to take his revenge in front of his public, but the American decided otherwise and won by unanimous decision of the judges.
A disappointment for Kongo, who had assured us before his fight not to want to hang up the mittens right away.
The champ @ryanbader grinding against @kongo4real.#Bellator280 LIVE on @SHOsports pic.twitter.com/CwzpwNR2Db
— BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) May 6, 2022
Previously, the Cuban Yoel Romero, former star of the UFC, had made the show against Alex Polizzi in the category of light-heavyweight.
Former Olympic wrestling champion in 2000, Romero went to glean his victory after the third recovery by a TKO.
The setback: Cergy and Rueil start badly
BASKETBALL.
A missed opportunity.
While they had released a performance of choice last week by eliminating Chartres, one of the contenders for the rise in Pro B, the players of Cergy-Pontoise fell heavily, Saturday at home, against Cep Lorient (50- 82), in their first match of the quarter-finals.
The Spartans lost for this first round of the 1/4 Final Playoffs.
Our warriors will have to achieve the feat in Lorient on Friday evening to continue this crazy adventure
Thanks to our public who will have pushed their players until the last minute! #GoSpartiates pic.twitter.com/3ygVQERDq6
– Cergy-Pontoise Spartans (@CPBB_Officiel) May 7, 2022
After a completely failed start to the match (8-26 at the end of the first quarter), the Val-d'Oise players ran after the score without ever really believing in victory, such was the gap created.
Weighed down by a non-existent skill (28% on shots), Cergy no longer has the right to make mistakes and will have to pull himself together in the second match of this series if the promoted Ile-de-France player wants to continue his great epic and believe in the unthinkable, a second climb in a row in two years.
On the Rueil side, the defeat also marked this weekend in Ile-de-France after the Hauts-de-Seine players let their first leg slip away in the quarter-finals of the playoffs, against Stade Rochelais (63-75).
The Right Reaction: Revival Seals
BASKETBALL.
Sceaux gives himself air.
A week after a first defeat against Monaco (57-67) to launch the Women's National 1 playoffs, Chris Singleton's team recovered perfectly by winning at home on Saturday against Feytiat (71-61) .
Superb atmosphere tonight at the #ClosSaintMarcel gymnasium in @Ville_de_Sceaux
After a defeat (57-67) last week against @MBA_Basket, the @AsaSceauxBasket is reviving tonight against #Feytiat #Basket (71-61)
👏 & 🙏 at the whole team and coach @singletonchr
🏀👇 https://t.co/ASLhmebh5f pic.twitter.com/iA9UDfiRSu
— Henry-Pierre MELONE (@hpmelone) May 7, 2022
Despite the absence of their leader Aminata Konaté, injured, the Scéennes were led by Mélissa Mendes to victory.
The Hauts-de-Seine players aim to move up to the Women's Ligue 2 and will have to acquire one of the two winning tickets to do so, while they will now have to play two away games.
Results
BASEBALL.
Division 1.
MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX - SAVIGNY-SUR-ORGE: 0-1 and 4-3, La Rochelle - SÉNART: 1-3 and 10-2.
BASKETBALL.
Nationale 1. Quarter-finals (first leg)
: RUEIL - Stade Rochelais: 63-75;
CERGY-PONTOISE - Lorient: 50-82.
National 1 Women (playoffs, 2nd day)
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SEALS - Feytiat: 57-67.
HANDBALL.
Liqui Moly Starleague (25th day)
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PSG (1st) - Montpellier (4th): 37-33, Nancy (16th) - CRÉTEIL (11th): 36-31.
Proligue (28th day)
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Billère (8th) - TREMBLAY (6th): 31-28.
IVRY (1st) - Sélestat (5th): 30-29, PONTAULT (3rd) - Valence (14th): 29-24, Villeurbanne (15th) - MASSY (9th): 33-29.
Butagaz Energy League (24th day)
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PARIS 92 - Plan-de-Cuques: 29-16.
RUGBY.
European Cup (quarter-finals)
: RACING 92 - Sale (Eng): 41-22.
National (26th day)
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MASSY (1st) - Valence Romans Drome (3rd): 20-18;
Nice (6th) - SURESNES (9th): 26-14.
Women's Elite 1 (14th day)
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STADE FRANÇAIS (7th, group 1) - Stade Rennais (5th): 7-29;
BOBIGNY (3rd, pool 1) - Grenoble (4th): 31-22;
CHILLY-MAZRIN (5th, pool 2) - Lyon (4th): 8-21.
VOLLEYBALL.
Ligue A, playdowns (7th day)
: Toulouse - LE PLESSIS-ROBINSON: 3-2.
