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2024 Olympics: French team sports between shadows and (dim) lights

2023-09-18T15:16:44.684Z

Highlights: French basketball dreamed of greatness this summer. The men's side finished with their heads in the bucket, dominating Côte d'Ivoire. Volleyball players at the foot of the European podium. Football in search of landmarks... A look back at a contrasting summer, and a bit worrying, one year before the Paris Games. No one has forgotten the historic final fireworks display in Tokyo in 2021 of French team sports. Is the dynamic still the same for the different collective disciplines, knowing that Bleus et Bleues all benefit from an automatic qualification?


ANALYSIS - Volleyball players at the foot of the European podium, catastrophic basketball players at the World Cup, football in search of landmarks... A look back at a contrasting summer, and a bit worrying, one year before the Paris Games.


No one has forgotten the historic final fireworks display in Tokyo in 2021 of French team sports. Between the golden double of handball – perfect symbol of diversity –, the coronation of volleyball players or the two podiums of basketball – silver for men and bronze for women, the last weekend of the Tokyo Olympic Games was an unparalleled success for the France. Two years later, and a little less than a year before the 2024 vintage scheduled in Paris, is the dynamic still the same for the different collective disciplines, knowing that Bleus et Bleues all benefit from an automatic qualification as an organizing country, which offers a certain comfort to best prepare the event? Overview.

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French basketball dreamed of greatness this summer. Rather, he had the right to decadence. Especially on the men's side, who approached their World Championship in Asia with dreams of gold, and who finished it with their heads in the bucket, dominating Côte d'Ivoire...

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