Ceiling too low, humidity … French basketball players unhappy with the place chosen for the Paris Olympics

It is a change of program that displeases the Blues. Several months ago, the Bid Committee for the 2024 Olympic Games proposed holding basketball matches at the Arena (Porte de la Chapelle) for the Paris Games: the organizing committee ultimately favors Hall 6 of the Exhibition Center (Porte de Versailles) to host the preliminary rounds men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, and Bercy for the final phase from the quarters.

Ceiling too low, humidity level unsatisfactory… On social networks, the players of the French team express their disappointment, like captain Nicolas Batum, who inveighs against the organizers via Twitter:

Are you really going to let the best team sport of the event play in this place? I don’t know who is the decision maker, but you have to do better for basketball! -Nicolas Batum

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Basketball player Evan Fournier, an Olympic vice-champion from the Ile-de-France region with the French team in Tokyo last summer, also spoke on social networks with a nod to the Agricultural Showwhich the Parc des Expositions also hosts.

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A new meeting between the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and the International Basketball Federation is scheduled for next week.


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