French volleyball players have landed in Tokyo
The group led by Laurent Tillie, whose last adventure at the head of the France team is, has arrived in Japan. The twelve players selected for Tokyo will complete their preparation in Okinawa before entering the Olympic Village. Third in the last League of Nations, the France team will start its tournament against the United States in 19 days, on July 24.
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Basketball: the French list with the Big Three Gobert-Fournier-Batum
After a long NBA season, the tauliers Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier and Nicolas Batum will take the French group to Tokyo to try to win a third Olympic medal after the 1948 and 2000 editions. Absent at the 2019 World Cup, Thomas Heurtel regains a place in the roster. Frank Ntilikina, Andrew Albicy, Nando De Colo, Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot, Guerschon Yabusele, Petr Cornelie, Vincent Poirier and Moustapha Fall complete Vincent Collet’s list.
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Roger Federer with the Swiss delegation
Roger Federer was named in a list of 116 Swiss athletes selected for the Tokyo Olympics, the Swiss Olympic Committee announced on Monday. The world No. 8, who will be 40 on August 8, has not officially confirmed his participation, however.
At the end of June, he left room for doubt by announcing that he would decide at the end of Wimbledon if he would go to Tokyo to try to win Olympic gold in singles, the only major title missing from his record. At the Olympics, Federer won doubles gold with Stan Wawrinka in Beijing and singles silver four years later in London.
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Romane Dicko aims for gold in Tokyo
The 21-year-old judokate Romane Dicko will try to climb on the top step of the Tokyo podium in the over 78 kg category. “I can’t wait, I’m going to Japan on July 15. I’m impatient, it’s approaching faster and faster. I’ve had a very, very good season, I’m aiming for the gold medal,” he said. it entrusted to RMC. Impressive, the French prodigy has not yet crossed the Japanese Akira Sone, who should stand in his way in Tokyo: “According to the tables that are looming it’s complicated but I will be ready, too. The best will win , it will be me, don’t worry (smile). ”
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The blue of handball lessened
Diminished by injuries (Dembélé, Kanor, Kouyaté), the Bleues du handball will join the Olympic village with only one left-back by profession, Alexandra Lacrabère. Right wing Laura Flippes should slide off the chainstay.
The group of 15 players
Goalkeepers: Cléopatre Darleux (Brest), Amandine Leynaud (Györ / HUN)
Left wings: Coralie Lassource (c.) (Brest), Chloé Valentini (Besançon)
Left backs: Kalidiatou Niakaté (Brest), Estelle Nze Minko (Györ/HUN), Allison Pineau (Buducnost/MNE)
Pivots: Beatrice Edwige (Györ / HUN), Pauletta Foppa (Brest)
Half centers: Méline Nocandy (Metz), Grâce Zaadi (Rostov / RUS)
Right backs: Alexandra Lacrabère (Fleury)
Right wings: Pauline Coatanea (Brest), Blandine Dancette (Nantes), Laura Flippes (Paris 92)
The two substitutes
Goalkeeper: Catherine Gabriel (Paris 92)
Rear right: Océane Sercien-Ugolin (Nantes)
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Osaka prepares to be on top and attend press conferences
Naomi Osaka hopes to be in top form for the Olympics in her country, she said after retiring from the Roland Garros and Wimbledon tournaments. “Proud” to play for her country, the Japanese tennis star said she was preparing “little by little in order to be at my best.” “I have spent a lot of time with my family. I can calmly relieve the pressure, mentally and physically,” she continued in a message published by the NHK. Naomi Osaka had temporarily withdrawn from the circuit to fight against anxiety and episodes of depression.
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The specter of the camera hangs over the Olympics
Pandemic forces, the Games ceremony promises to be more sober than the disproportionate shows during the previous Olympics, even if the details are still kept confidential. As for the number of spectators authorized to attend, if it has not yet been fixed, it could be very limited.
The organizers had set in June a gauge of 50% of the reception capacities for the public during the Olympic events, and within a maximum limit of 10,000 people.
But last week Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and the president of the organizing committee for the Olympic Games, Seiko Hashimoto, warned that a closed session remains possible, in the face of a recent upsurge in Covid-19 cases in Tokyo.
The government is expected to extend coronavirus restrictions in the capital and other departments across the country this week, which were originally scheduled to last until the end of this week. Further public announcements for the Games are expected to follow.
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NBA star Rui Hachimura flagship of Japan
Basketball player Rui Hachimura (Washington Wizards), 23, born to a Japanese mother and a Beninese father, and double world champion wrestler Yui Susaki will be the two flag bearers of the Japanese delegation during the ceremony. Olympic Games open on July 23, the Japanese Olympic Committee announced on Monday.
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Nikola Karabatic with the Blues of handball
Center-half Nikola Karabatic, seriously injured in mid-October with his club Paris SG, will play well in the Tokyo Olympics, appearing in the list of 15 players selected on Monday by coach Guillaume Gille to travel to Japan in two weeks.
Victim of a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee on October 17, Nikola Karabatic resumed competition with PSG at the end of May after seven months of cut, playing in particular the Final 4 of the Champions League.
With the French, Nikola Karabatic will go in search of a fourth Olympic podium, after gold in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012, and silver in 2016 in Rio (defeat in the final against Denmark).
The list of the 15 selected
Goalkeepers: Yann Genty (Paris SG), Vincent Gérard (Paris SG)
Left wingers: Hugo Descat (Montpellier), Michaël Guigou (c.) (Nîmes)
Back left: Nikola Karabatic (Paris SG), Timothey N’Guessan (FC Barcelone/ESP)
Half centers: Kentin Mahé (Veszprem/HUN), Nedim Remili (Paris SG)
Pivots: Ludovic Fabregas (FC Barcelona / ESP), Luka Karabatic (Paris SG), Nicolas Tournat (Kielce / POL)
Right backs: Dika Mem (FC Barcelone/ESP), Melvyn Richardson (Montpellier)
Right wingers: Luc Abalo (Elverum / NOR), Valentin Porte (Montpellier)
The two substitutes
Goalie: Rémi Desbonet (Nîmes)
Back left: Romain Lagarde (RN Löwen / GER)
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Welcome to our live commentary where you can find all the information related to the news of the Tokyo Olympic Games (July 23-August 8). For the first time, a man and a woman will carry the flag of the France team at the next Olympics and their names will be revealed Monday evening, less than three weeks before the opening ceremony of an event heckled by the pandemic.
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