A new sports weekend – excluding football – and a new appointment. “Le Parisien” invites you to analyze and decipher the results of the main clubs in Ile-de-France.
The place to be: Monal smiled at a Frenchman
The best swordsmen on the planet met at the Pierre-de-Coubertin stadium for the Monal challenge. Since 1938, the competition has offered a very high-level line-up with the world’s best representatives, including this year the Frenchman Romain Cannone, individual Olympic champion and current world No. 1. But he didn’t win. The winner of the 2022 vintage is however French.
At 26, Nelson Lopez Pourtier (225th in the world), won the most prestigious World Cup event of the year by dropping the Kazakh Kurbanov in the final (15-11): “It’s a sick thing because I am the one who shot most often during this tournament, says the Frenchman. Touch after touch, game after game, I started to believe it. I had been waiting for this moment for a long time but I had never managed to get out of the table of 32. It’s surreal. »
In addition to this very unexpected victory, the tricolor clan can also be delighted with the performance of Alexandre Bardenet, bronze medalist, who deprived Romain Cannone of a place on the podium. By teams, this Sunday, the Blues took second place, beaten by Hungary 43-36 in the final.
The flop: all the basketball players on the mat
Dirty weekend for the three Ile-de-France residents of BetClic Elite! They all lost. For his reunion with Strasbourg his former club which he led for almost 10 years (2011-2020), Vincent Collet the coach of Boulogne-Levallois fell. A defeat without much consequence for the Metropolitans who retain the top of the standings but see Monaco and Asvel come back at great speed. Asvel who made short work of Paris Basket who discovered the old Astroballe and fell heavily 107-82. The maintenance of Parisians remains far from a simple formality.
Whip, Nanterre will also have to work on it. His defeat against Le Mans in his room 88-98 is not good news in terms of qualifying for the playoffs. Nanterre lost to a direct opponent and dropped one place in the standings. Pascal Donnadieu’s team is ninth, just behind… Le Mans, the last to qualify for the moment.
The phrase
“The last Euro went badly for us, we will go to the Euro this summer with a different mentality. ” Of Léo Villainthe goalkeeper of PSG and the France under-21 team, winner of the Tiby tournament in Serris (77) against Egypt (33-32):
The number: 5
Racing 92, messy and clumsy, qualified for the quarter-finals of the European Rugby Cup by dominating its neighbor Stade Français (33-22) on Sunday. The sky and white club, winner 22-9 in the first leg, will face in the next round the English of Sale, who defeated Bristol (10-9 defeat in the first leg, 35-29 victory in the return). This is the fifth European quarter in a row for the Racingmen, who have not missed this meeting since the 2016-2017 season. The players of Laurent Travers, who won their three derbies in three weeks, join in the European roller coaster La Rochelle, Montpellier and defending champion Toulouse.
The results
BASKET. Betclic Elite (29th day). Strasbourg – BOULOGNE-LEVALLOIS 87-81; NANTERRE-Le Mans 88-98; ASVEL-PARIS 107-82.
HANDBALL. Tiby tournament in Serris. Final: France – Egypt 33-32. Women’s Division 1 (22nd day). PARIS 92 – Fleury 26-19.
VOLLEY. Ligue A, playdowns (3rd day): LE PLESSIS-ROBINSON – Toulouse 2-3.
RUGBY. European Cup (return round of 16): RACING – STADE FRANCAIS 33-22. Nationale (24th day): MASSY- Chambéry 19-13; Dijon-SURESNES 20-34.
