guest of France Info Tuesday morning, the president of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, wanted to clarify the situation around basketball, handball and volleyball at the next Games.
“Basketball will stay at Bercy for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final and could play in Lille in the first week” affirmed Tony Estanguet at the microphone of France info Tuesday morning, while the president of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee was the guest of the morning radio show.
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During the show, Tony Estanguet also excluded the Villepinte site, which has long been mentioned as a backup plan after the Versailles exhibition center. The Pierre-Mauroy stadium, which is located in Villeneuve-d’Ascq near Lille, has been at the heart of discussions between the Cojo and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) for several weeks.
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The decision should be officially known this Tuesday afternoon after yet another meeting of the Cojo board of directors. This proposal by the former Olympic champion aims to “to respond to a request from handball, which was to play in Lille for the two weeks and which wanted to play in Paris. To have all the team sports partly played in Paris makes sense. We have in France with handball a real love story, it is the most successful team at the Games » continues Estanguet who specified that the hand should play him in Paris the first week.
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