The fights lasted a bit, but the Blues ended up winning in these round of 16 matches, Saturday, July 27, at the Arena du Champ-de-Mars. Shirine Boukli qualified for the quarter-finals after her victory against Tunisian Oumaima Bedioui, in the -48 kg category. This afternoon, Luka Mkheidze will also be in the quarter-finals, in the -60 kg category. Follow our live stream.
China wins first gold medal of the Games in rifle shooting. Beijing won the first gold medal of the 2024 Olympic Games by beating South Korea (16-12) in the mixed 10-meter rifle shooting final on Saturday in Châteauroux, Indre. Yuting Huang and Lihao Sheng are therefore the first to be crowned in this Olympics. The bronze, the first medal awarded at the Games, was won a little earlier by Kazakhstan, which had beaten Germany (17-5).
Very large audience for the opening ceremony. More than 22 million viewers watched the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on France 2 on Friday evening, representing an 81.5% audience share (i.e. people watching on television), according to Médiamétrie data released on Saturday. This represents one of the highest television audiences in history, behind the record for the France-Argentina final of the 2022 World Cup, with 24 million viewers.
Skateboarding events postponed until Monday. The skateboarding events scheduled for Saturday from noon on the Place de la Concorde as part of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been postponed to Monday due to bad weather, the organizers announced. The final stages were to take place from 5 p.m.
Rugby player Antoine Dupont and fencer Marie-Florence Candassamy in the starting blocksThe French have a serious chance of reaching the final during the day and winning a prize in rugby 7s with Antoine Dupont (final at 9:30 p.m.) and individual épée fencing for Marie-Florence Candassamy (final at 9:30 p.m.).
The Blues start in basketball and handball. Saturday also sees the entry of the Blues in basketball and handball. Starting at 5:15 p.m., the French men’s basketball team, silver medalists at the 2021 Tokyo Games, face Brazil. At 9 p.m., Nikola Karabatic’s team, the defending champion, begins its handball tournament against Denmark, Olympic vice-champion. Finally, after facing the United States on Wednesday, the French footballers challenge Guinea, also at 9 p.m.
First matches at Roland-Garros, road cycling time trial… The rest of the programme is just as enticing, with men’s volleyball starting at 9am (elimination phase), men’s and women’s road cycling time trials starting at 2.30pm, the first tennis matches at Roland-Garros starting at noon, and the round of 16 of the mixed doubles table tennis event starting at 4.30pm.