A half in 3×3, two new medals and failures by shovel: the tops and flops of Tuesday

Tops

Agbegnenou at the time of consecration

She was eagerly awaited, and she did not disappoint at all. World number 1 in the -63kg category, Clarisse Agbegnenou was adorned with gold on Tuesday, after a day mastered from start to finish. In the final, the 28-year-old fighter defeated Slovenian Tina Trstenjak, who had just deprived her of Olympic gold five years ago in Rio. The standard bearer of the Blues therefore took her revenge, while expanding her impressive record with the only major title she still lacked. Hat.

A feat and a half in 3×3

Serious, spontaneous and very skillful, Ana Maria Filip’s partners have acquired their success in the last moments and will play their place in the final against Team USA. In a luxury half, the Blue will try to get the final and the medal assured for the first time in the history of the discipline against the favorite Americans.

Laurin, already bronze

At 19, the placid Althéa Laurin already has an Olympic bronze medal around her neck, after her victorious fight on Tuesday in Tokyo in the 67 kg category. A wink of fate for the one who started taekwondo on a misunderstanding, when she was supposed to do karate. Face closed throughout the competition, the Frenchwoman was finally able to display a broad smile at the end of her fight. The European champion has already made an appointment for Paris. She will only be 22 years old …

Chardy and Humbert advance

It’s rare enough to underline it, but French tennis was synonymous with success on Tuesday! The two remaining French singles representatives both passed the second round on Tuesday. Jérémy Chardy created the feat against Russian Aslan Karatsev, dominated in three sets (7-5, 4-6, 6-3).

Ugo Humbert also suffered but came out against Serbian Kecmanovic (4-6, 7-6, 7-5). He joins Stefanos Tsitsipas in the round of 16, while Chardy will cross swords with Britain’s Broady. Let’s face it, it’s good to see some French tennis successes!

The Flops

Double sledgehammer on a mountain bike

They had to offer themselves a resounding double. They came away with 6th and 9th place. Favorites of the mountain biking event, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, double reigning world champion and mountain bike legend, and Loana Lecomte, winner of the four World Cup races at the start of the season, fell on much stronger than them. in Tokyo.

We wondered how gold could escape them, it was finally the podium, trusted by three Swiss women, which escaped. It is obviously a huge blow to the whole tricolor clan and one of the biggest disappointments since the start of these Olympic Games. PFP fell in the first round and never really recovered from this twist of fate. As for Lecomte, the pressure of the event cut his legs.

Les Bleues miss the wrong match

They missed too many things. And especially commitment. The Blue were not up to the meeting for their entry into the running on the Japanese floor. Dominated by opposing aggressiveness, they suffered the law of the Japanese (74-70). Silver medalist in London 2012, fourth in Rio in 2016, France already has no room for error against Nigeria on Friday. Because afterwards, the Americans still sacred since 1992 at the Games present themselves …

Elimination and entry cracking for Hamadouche

The only female representative of French boxing, Maïva Hamadouche left the Olympic tournament in her first fight. Beaten on points by Mira Potkonen, the Frenchwoman did not (really) digest her elimination. After qualifying this defeat as “manifest theft”, Hamadouche paid his opponent of the day: “I don’t respect Potkonen at all, for me she’s not a real champion and she knows she lost. “The pill went badly but the observation remains the same: there are no longer any French in boxing at these Games.

Too fair, too imprecise, the French women are falling

After a first victory in extremis against Hungary (30-29), the Blue were keen to continue in their second group match against Spain. But on Tuesday, the France team lost track of a match that it was able to master. After a good first quarter of an hour, Allison Pineau and her partners made a series of bad choices and inaccuracies in the last gesture.

On several occasions, the Blue have had the opportunity to reduce the gap in the score following opposing numerical inferiorities. But the French have never succeeded in reversing the trend. This defeat (25-28) leaves a real bitter taste. Nothing dramatic from an accounting point of view, but we will have to pull ourselves together quickly.

Bonnet, a huge disappointment then a big question

Charlotte Bonnet embodied a chance for a medal for French swimming at the Tokyo Olympics. It will not be. The tricolor swimmer did not make it to the 200m final, despite her favorite race. But beyond this disappointment, the Frenchwoman now seems to be asking questions.