The French Olympic team, which broke its Beijing medal record on Sunday, will once again set out to attack the Olympic podiums on Monday, August 5. And this from 8 a.m., with the mixed triathlon relay, which was ultimately maintained and where the Blues, although favorites, finished just off the podium. The day will then feature a very nice program on all the Paris 2024 sites, from kayaking to athletics, including gymnastics. In the evening, the Blues in volleyball will try to validate their ticket for the semi-finals, while the footballers will seek to qualify for the final. Follow our live.
Ask for the program. At 10 am, the starting signal for the climbing events, where the men will compete in the bouldering semi-finals. The women will begin at 1:35 pm with the speed events. At 3 pm, we will head to the wrestling to follow the Frenchwoman Koumba Larroque (-68kg). In kayak cross, four French people, two in the women’s category (Camille Prigent and Angèle Hug) and two in the men’s category (Boris Neveu and Titouan Castryck), are taking part in the quarter-finals (from 3:30 p.m.). Also not to be missed: the surfing semi-finals and finals in Teahupo’o (Tahiti), with two French medal chances, starting at 7 p.m. (Paris time) and the men’s team table tennis, where France, with the Lebrun brothers, will face Slovenia (8 p.m.). Here is the full program for the day.
Disappointment for the French triathletes, who finished 4th in the mixed relay. However, it was one of the favorites, after Cassandre Beaugrand’s title and Léo Bergère’s bronze medal. The French triathlon team finally finished just off the podium on Monday morning. It must be said that the fall of the first relay runner, Pierre Le Corre, put the Blues behind from the start of the race. In the end, Germany was the Olympic champion, followed by Great Britain and the United States.
A hearty menu in athletics, and Duplantis in the spotlight. On the track at the Stade de France, many French men and women will enter the fray. There will be three in the 400m hurdles (10:05), two in the discus (10:10), two in the pole vault (10:40) and Shana Grebo will go through the repechage of the 400m hurdles (10:50). The flag bearer Mélina Robert-Michon will compete in the discus final (20:30), while Rénelle Lamotte is expected in the 800m final at 21:47. In addition to the Tricolores, Olympic champion Armand Duplantis is expected to win a second pole vault title. If all goes as planned, he will also try to beat his own world record, set at 6.24m in April (19:00).
More gold for Simone Biles? At midday, the American gymnastics superstar, already a three-time winner in Paris, should shine again on the beam (12:30 p.m.) and on the floor (2:20 p.m.). She could add two new lines to her incredible list of achievements.
Football, volleyball, 3×3 basketball… Team sports to follow. Things are getting serious for the French volleyball players, the defending champions, who will face Germany in the quarter-finals (5 p.m.). In 3×3 basketball, the Blues will play their semi-final against the Latvian favorite (7 p.m.). The French men’s football team coached by Thierry Henry will play for its place in the final against Egypt (9 p.m.).
Three new bronze medals and a new record. And three that make 44, to beat the record of Beijing 2008. Félix Lebrun brilliantly won a historic Olympic podium in table tennis on Sunday, before the foil fencers added a new medal to the nice total of French fencing (seven in all) and the tricolor swimmers, led by Léon Marchand and Florent Manaudou, did not finish in style in the 4×100 medley relay.