With a medal stashed somewhere in their suitcases, the Blues leave Berlin in the middle of the morning on September 19.
They are expected on the Champs-Élysées for a final media gathering at the start of the afternoon.
There will surely be a few drops to drink but the liquid will taste bitter.
Despite an exceptional campaign with an emotion on certain matches as sport rarely provides, the disappointment of the French clan is immense.
Faced with Spaniards who are no longer what they were in the time of the Gasol brothers, basketball France really believed that it had found successors to the Diaw-Parker generation crowned in 2013. It was to forget that the Spanish basketball school is one of the best in the world.
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