What does August 8th say?

This Thursday, August 8, handball player Nicolas Karabatic ends his international career with the Blues being eliminated in the quarter-finals, Coca-Cola is accused of sportswashing and punters are fans of the Games.

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This Thursday, August 8, France was eliminated from the men’s Olympic handball tournament, after the defeat of the Blues 35 to 34 against Germany in the quarter-finals. This match was also Nikola Karabatic’s last with the French team, after 22 years of good and loyal service, 11 titles, including three Olympic.

Already singled out for filling ecocups with the contents of plastic bottles in the refreshment stands of the Olympic sites, the Coca-Cola group is also accused of “sportswashing” by two researchers, specialists in public health. Trish Cotter and Sandra Mullin accuse the company of using the Games to sell sodas, drinks among the “main drivers” of diseases that are widespread throughout the world, such as obesity or diabetes.

These Paris 2024 Games are popular with bettors. The National Gaming Agency expects a total of around 360 million euros in bets in France, triple the 122 million euros bet in 2021 on the occasion of the Tokyo Games. A craze that follows that of the public and which is also explained by the absence of time difference, which facilitates the live monitoring of the events and therefore the bets.

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