"Basketball will stay at Bercy for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final and could play in Lille in the first week,"
said Tony Estanguet at the microphone of
France info
Tuesday morning, while the president of the Paris Olympics organizing committee 2024 was the guest of the radio morning.
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During the show, Tony Estanguet also excluded the Villepinte site, which has long been mentioned as a backup plan after the Versailles exhibition center.
The Pierre-Mauroy stadium, which is located in Villeneuve-d'Ascq near Lille, has been at the heart of discussions between the Cojo and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) for several weeks.
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The decision should be officially known this Tuesday afternoon after yet another meeting of the Cojo board of directors.
This proposal from the former Olympic champion aims to
“respond to a request from handball, which was to play in Lille for the two weeks and which wanted to play in Paris.
To have all the team sports partly played in Paris makes sense.
In France, we have a real love story with handball, it is the most successful team at the Games,”
continues Estanguet, who specified that he should play handball in Paris the first week.