Saturday July 31 – day 8
The French of the day
Let it be said right away, France will not repeat its raid on Saturday this Sunday. Quite simply because there are not as many chances of medals. There is three. The biggest is surely Florent Manaudou. Victorious in his semi-final in the 50m freestyle, the 2012 Olympic champion (second in 2016) will challenge the monster
Caelab Dressel in the night. Jeanjean and his BMX, 4th in qualifying, can hope for a freestyle charm during his Tokyo Olympics. Finally, swordsmen have a team playing card with the spearhead Enzo Lefort, world number 3. Otherwise in co-sport, the volleyball players have to save their skin against Brazil while the handball players will be entitled to a shock (for nothing since already qualified for the quarterfinals) against Norway. In athletics, not much to hope for, we will talk about it again a few lines below!
The star of the day
We want to tell you that it will be the one who wins the queen race, the 100m men. Biles isn’t here for the start of the individual gymnastics events and we won’t talk to you every day about friend Dressel. The question precisely this Sunday is: who will succeed King Usain Bolt? The 100m final has rarely been so open in recent years. Place your bets !
The medal that we (really) not expect
Let’s be crazy ! A medal in athletics even if you don’t believe a kopeck. No question of doing all-in but hey why not. We think suddenly of Jimmy Vicaut on the 100m or Tual et Bosse on 800m. These three athletes are in the semi-finals and the latter is the type to leave the race of his life like that for no reason (see his title of world champion in 2017). Rouguy Diallo is already in the final of the triple jump but she is far from the best …
The other events not to be missed
There is one basketball game you can’t miss this Sunday, Spain – Slovenia! The Iberian outsiders face the Doncic phenomenon and in addition, it seems to us that the loser could take the United States in quarter. In boxing, we will follow in the early morning the quarterback of Mourad Aliev who had made a strong impression in the first round (+91 kg). Ah yes, that’s always fun to watch, cross-country eventing. See you at 12:45 am for that. And then a little tennis to sprinkle it all with the men’s final, Khachanov – Zverev.
The reading board
This paper is inevitable because we have vibrated as rarely since the start of the Olympics, it is the triumph of French judo against Japan. You can savor it and it is our special correspondent Nico Camus who tells you about this historic moment!
“We took possession of the Budokan” … The Blues end with a triumph via @ 20minutesSport https://t.co/HxUs70gAtN
– 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) July 31, 2021