Before the great gold rush of French team sports in Tokyo, the results of these 2021 Olympics were hardly glorious for the French delegation. Only seven gold medals and a total that struggled to reach the 30 podiums. After the victories of the two hand and volleyball teams (+ silver and bronze in basketball), not only has this number been exceeded (33), but Olympic France can also congratulate itself on having equaled almost miraculously Rio’s gold medal total (ten).
Final report for the French delegation to # Tokyo2020 :
🥇 10 gold medals
🥈 12 silver medals
🥉 11 bronze medalsFrance finished 8th in the medal table, below the target set at 40-42 medals. 8th place is however satisfactory.
– Christophe Lemaire (@ch_lemaire) August 8, 2021
French sport, which has also won 12 times silver and 11 times bronze, is failing in its quest for 40 medals, and it is not the backpedaling in the midst of sinking of the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, who explained there After ten days, “we knew we couldn’t do better than in Rio” which will make us forget this failure. France now has three years to lay medal-winning athletes in battery. The mission promises to be difficult. Provided that team sports remain at the level.