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Heuh, non. La Serbie est médaillée et à Tokyo, elle a gagné tous ses matchs 3-0 et n'a perdu que 2 matchs contre les 2 autres médaillées. Elles sont aussi accessoirement championnes du monde et double-championnes d'Europe en titre A tout prendre, la Russie représente mieux le niveau moyen olympique (quart de finaliste). Les joueuses sont hyper-jeunes et ont montré par bribe de belles choses contre la Russie. Pour presque toutes, c'est effectivement une découverte du (très) haut niveau, particulièrement contre les Serbes. Le talent est là, reste à le faire fructifier. Mais c'est là que se pose le problème majeur du volley féminin : le temps de jeu des jeunes françaises dans les clubs dit professionnels (et le pourquoi de la présence du centre fédéral en LAF)

Great training field for french teams at Paris then...

Je suis curieux de ton "non" qui semble définitif pour Arneton @SalamAkhi https://www.facebook.com/653294901/videos/548201909705403/ Je l'avais apercu dans un meeting cet hiver, ne serait-ce qu'au niveau des attitudes, ça n'a plus rien à voir (à l'époque , on aurait dit une lycéenne pour son épreuve du BAC...)

Je note, je note Après c'est vrai qu'on ne peut pas (trop) extrapoler les résultats en juniors chez les séniors. Les palmarès sont remplis de gars qu'on a jamais retrouvé ensuite et à contrario on a des mecs comme Lavillenie que personne n'avait vu dans ses jeunes années. "Alors peut-être".

Charline Picon (Gold at Rio, silver at Tokyo) was saying she would need an extra 10 kgs to be competitive in this new class.

So basically a -- affair. So much originality, we could almost believe this class is called RSX or something

I've watched the final of the french wrestler against the Iranian guy. It was a total annihilation, he could do nothing at all. They were 3 divisions apart...

Obviously... But you have to consider the hosts also. None of the next three ones having a real desire for the discipline, it can only hurt the chances of weightlifting to remain.

I believe the total air time of weightlifting during these Olympics in France was about 60 seconds. So, yeah, people won't notice. Yet, I still believe IOC is trying to push the sport in the right direction and that if they fail to do so (which seems likely at this point) big decision will happen only afterward. Actually, I could see Paris to hold the last Olympic weightlifting tournament in history.

Well, I don't think they care They'd save a bit of money and that's it. Anyway, do people really expect IOC to make such a radical move less than three years before the games start ?

Why ?

French selection here : https://www.athle.fr/asp.net/main.html/html.aspx?htmlid=6181 Possibly our best team ever in a junior world championship with 10 athletes ranked from 1st to 5h in junior world rankings. Sasha Zhoya (110m h) and Anthony Ammirati (pole vault) will try to secure their recent continental gold medals on world stage. Could be some historic championships for us, right after the somehow disappointing (actually, not really) olympics.

Official now. Next world championship will be held at the indoor Roubaix vélodrome from the the 20th to the 24 October 1500 seats only.

Overall tally (5 medals) is the best one from France since 1994.

No here just like in athletics next week. Covid ?

Hope you're right. I'm so tired of these made-up excuses every fucking time...

Pas de soucis côté jeunesse en VTT, on est assuré que nos espoirs continueront d'être déçus pendant encore quelques olympiades https://www.lequipe.fr/Vtt/Actualites/Line-burquier-championne-d-europe-juniors/1278337

Great insight, thanks. If you have the full list somewhere, I'll be very interested

Are you sure about that (unfortunately) ?

Quels sont les noms que vous avez coché comme potentiel nouveau médaillables d'ici Paris 2024 (qui étaient présents ou non à Tokyo) Quelques noms (à étoffer, hein ) Athlétisme : Zhoya, Erius (trop jeune ?), Ammirati, Arneton (qui vient de retrouver son ancien coach), Loga... Natation : Marchand, Sœurs Delmas, Grousset, Wattel ... Taekwondo : Randrianisa, Ravet Tennis de table : Pravade (??) Badminton : Popov C. (??), Gicquel-Delrue Tir à l'arc : Barbelin Canoe-Kayack : Prigent

I've a suggestion for @Sindo : a second doping thread (doping discussion or whatever) where people could discuss these kind of topics and keeping this one just for actual doping cases. There, mods should move any post accusing someone, making not so subtil wink wink references (that would be me ^^), investigations from the presse, etc. On the other hand, people who will go there will know perfectly well what to expect and that the basis of discussion can't be : "my favorite athlete who coincidently share the same nationally than me has been tested a zillion times, how dare you accusing him of anything ?" #leavehimalone It works perfectly well on other forums.

Or having - real - mixte events open to both sexes (like it used to be).

Don't you think that's a slight overstatement The men's team was beaten by teams ranked 1 and 4 at the olympics and the women, well, they're are not ranked 62th in the world for no reason Of course, we will

That's actually a better argument But really, even when we do know that the players were doping (ie Juve at the end of the 90's and thus the french football team of 98), people just don't care. Football is too big of a toy to be break up.

That's the good old rope: footballers don't dope because this is all about 'talent'