Perfs of the day
Sports co. Three out of three. The French handball players had opened the way with their expected and quiet victory against Bahrain (42-28). The basketball players imitated them not without fear against Italy. The feat came from the volleyball players: Earvin Ngapeth and his teammates, narrowly out of the group stage, overcame the Polish favorites, double reigning world champions (2014 and 2018), in five sets. “We never doubted, because even after the loss of the first set, we felt that we were playing better than them, that we were more into it, that the guys opposite were feverish”, Central Barthélémy Chinenyeze told our special correspondent in Tokyo.
Athletics. He ripped his T-shirt with it. Norwegian Karsten Warholm smashed his own world record in the 400-meter hurdles on Tuesday by almost 76 hundredths. He is the first athlete to run under 46 ”, with a time of 45” 94. “It’s crazy”, he said after his performance. A crazy race since his runner-up, the American Rai Benjamin, and the bronze medalist, the Brazilian Alison dos Santos, fell below 47 ″. Read our article.
On the saltire of the Olympic stadium, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis took part for the first time in his young career in the Games. Five jumps, all successful, were enough for the Swedish prodigy to win gold (6.02 meters). Read the article from our athletics specialist in Tokyo.
Elaine Thompson-Herah won the 200 meters in 21 ″ 53, Jamaica’s new record. As in 2016 in Rio, she achieved the double 100 meters / 200 meters.
Track cycling. The French trio, composed of Florian Grengbo, Rayan Helal and Sébastien Vigier, won bronze in the team sprint event.
She is back
After her withdrawal for psychological reasons last week, Simone Biles competed on Tuesday in the ultimate gymnastics event, the beam. She won the bronze medal there, like at the Rio five years ago. “I did it for myself and I am proud to have been able to compete once again”, said the American. The multi-medalist champion had disconcerted by renouncing the individual and collective general competitions. She had since withdrawn from several other individual events. She had explained very frankly that she suffered from psychological and self-confidence problems. Read our article.
Disappointments
Pole vault. Is it really a disappointment? Or courage? We had left Saturday on a difficult qualification. This Tuesday on the saltire of the Olympic stadium, Renaud Lavillenie could not defend his chances. After spraining his left ankle in the home stretch of his preparation for the Games, the Frenchman injured his right ankle during the warm-up. He takes eighth place in the competition. “Without this injury tonight I’m sure I would have won my bet. Everything was wiped out in a short period of time ”, he blurted out. Cruel.
Hammer throw. Alexandra Tavernier did not go far from offering a first podium in French athletics. But the European hammer vice-champion took the worst place, 4th (74.41 meters), in a competition won by the Polish Anita Wlodarczyk, who won a third Olympic title (78.48 meters).
100 meters hurdles. Wilhem Belocian bit the dust in the 110-meter hurdles heats. Five years after his false start at the same stadium at the Rio Games, the Frenchman came out the back door again, not finishing the race after hitting a hurdle and leaving the stadium in tears.
The sides
Boxing. Seized by the French camp, which challenged the disqualification of boxer Mourad Aliev, the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected his appeal on Tuesday. The other four athletes of the French boxing delegation in Tokyo, all quickly emerged in their category, also all attacked the judges. After six medals including two gold in Rio, Tokyo is a disappointment for blue boxing. Read our article.
Program: in Tokyo, it’s already tomorrow
Skateboard. After the “street” last week, skateboarding, new to the Olympic sphere, is back in the second week with the “park”. When the first offers skaters a rectilinear course reconstituting the urban space with steps and ramps, the second plunges them into a “bowl”, a deep basin. Qualifications and women’s final on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. Read our presentation.
Athletics. Quentin Bigot, that Release followed during his Olympic preparation – prolonged due to postponement of the Games -, is in the hammer throw final. Vice-world champion two years ago in Doha, the Mosellan says he is certain that the podium is within his reach. The final is scheduled for 13:15. Kevin Mayer, one of the most solid hopes for a medal in the king of the Games, is embarking on the decathlon.
Veil. Camille Lecointre and Aloïse Retornaz qualified for the final of the 470. Ranked second before the final Olympic regatta, they can offer a third medal in French sailing. Answer from 8:33 am. Meet up with our guide to understand everything about the sailing events.
Sports co. After the boys, it’s the girls’ turn to get a place in the last four of the handball and basketball tournaments. In hand, the Bleues will face the Netherlands from 1:45 p.m. (Paris time zone). The basketball quarter-final will oppose the French selection to Spain (2 p.m.).
Medal table
With the bronze won by the trackers in team sprint, France has at this stage 24 medals: six in gold (the shooter Jean Quiquampoix, the French men’s foil team, the swordsman Romain Cannone in fencing, the team mixed and Clarisse Agbégnénou in judo and the duo Matthieu Androdias-Hugo Boucheron in rowing), ten in silver (swimmer Florent Manaudou, judokas Amandine Buchard, Sarah-Léonie Cysique and Madeleine Malonga, windsurfers Charline Picon and Thomas Goyard, the French women’s foil team, the French women’s saber team, the French rugby sevens team and the rowers Laura Tarantola and Claire Bové) and eight bronze (the team sprinters, the riders of the eventing, judokas Teddy Riner, Romane Dicko and Luka Mkheidze, the mixed triathlon team, taekwondist Althéa Laurin, fencer Manon Brunet).
Chronicle “in the Olympic bubble”
In Tokyo for the Games, our special correspondent Romain Métairie tells the story of adventure within adventure.
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