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LIVE. JO 2024: Agbegnenou and Marchand on the program, the triathlon postponed, another crazy day, live

After a prolific day with 8 new medals, the French team will have new chances this Tuesday, notably in team fencing and judo with Clarisse Agbegnenou. The men's triathlon was postponed to Wednesday due to the insufficient quality of the waters of the Seine.

L’essentiel

  • The organization of the Paris Olympics has announced this Tuesday the postponement of the men's triathlon event, scheduled for this morning until next week. from 8 a.m. The quality of the waters of the Seine was é deemed insufficient. The test was successfully completed. pushed back à Wednesday à 10:45 a.m., following on from the women's event scheduled for next week. 8am.
  • This Tuesday sees the entry into the running of the reigning Olympic champion Clarisse Agbegnenou in judo category -63 kg. The women's team is also aiming for a team medal. In swimming, Emma Terebo and Beryl Gasteldello will be in the 100m backstroke final while Léon Marchand will return to the pool for the 200m breaststroke and 200m butterfly series.
  • Monday was a prolific day for the camp with 8 medals including two golds for Nicolas Gestin in canoeing and Manon Apithy-Brunet in foil. Silver medals for Sara Balzer in foil, in team eventing in equestrian, in mountain biking for Victor Koretzky, in team archery and in judo for the surprise Joan-Benjamin Gaba. Bronze finally for Sarah-Léonie Cysique in judo. 
  • Discover all the news of the day.

Live

08:25 – The football program

Continuation of the group matches in the men's football competition, including France – New Zealand & 19h.

  • 15h : Dominican Republic – Uzbekistan
  • 15h : Spain – Egypt
  • 17h : Ukraine – Argentina
  • 17h : Morocco – Iraq
  • 19h : New Zealand – France
  • 7 p.m.: United States – Guinea
  • 9 p.m.: Israel – Japan
  • 9 p.m.: Paraguay – Mali

08:11 – Agbégnénou invites the French public

Clarisse Agbégnénou puts her Olympic title on the line in the under 63 kilos category this Tuesday. She is the main favorite &agrav; his estate.

08:00 – Women's epee by team for a new medal ?

Marie-Florence Candassamy, Auriane Mallo, Alexandra Louis-Marie and Coraline Vitalis will try to bring a new medal for fencing after the crazy day of Monday and the double in sabre.

07:45 – What ranking for France in the medal table ?

With eight medals in one day, including two in gold, France goes back a long way. second place in the ranking before the day's events.

07:30 – Léon Marchand back this morning

Le swimmer, Olympic champion in the 400m medley, will be back in the pools à from 11 a.m. for the series. Two hours will separate those of the 200m butterfly and the 200m breaststroke. Here is his program:

  • Tuesday July 30, 11:11 a.m.: 200m butterfly series
  • Tuesday, July 30, 1:03 p.m.: 200m breaststroke heats
  • Tuesday, July 30, 8:42 p.m.: 200m butterfly semifinals
  • Tuesday, July 30, 9:47 p.m.: 200m breaststroke semifinals

07:15 – The 3×3 women's basketball team enters the fray today

The 3×3 women's basketball team kicks off its Olympics at home this Tuesday on the first day of the group stage. At the Concorde, they will face China to enter the competition. It will be at 9:30 p.m.

06:55 – Agbegnenou's big day ?

Three years after her demonstration in Tokyo, the queen of judo Clarisse Agbegnenou has a date with history to win a third Olympic title, the second in individual. The Frenchwoman, who returned from maternity in 2023, had again won the world title a few months after her return but has suffered more in recent months with a 7th place in the European championship and then a bronze medal at the last World Championships, far from her total superiority of yesteryear. Non-top of the series, she inherited a difficult draw, illustrated by an entry into the competition against the Israeli Gili Sharir, the reigning European vice-champion.

06:37 – A new surprise in judo ? Alpha Oumar Djalo will open the day

The day after the sensation Joan-Benjamin Gaba, 35th in the world and silver medalist in -73kg, another French outsider is entered in the category above, the -81kg: Alpha Oumar Djalo. He also has as his only international individual medal the bronze won at the 2023 European Championships. He will not have time to think since the Paris native, already bronze in the capital at the 2023 Paris Grand Slam, is scheduled for the first fight of the day at 10am. He faces the Egyptian Abdelrahman Abdelghani in the first round.

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06:26 – The competitions will begin at 8:30 a.m.

Badminton will open the day at the Chapelle & 8:30 a.m. followed by Olympic pit shooting qualifications and the first handball, volleyball and beach volleyball matches. Judo begins at 10 a.m. followed by the first rounds of swimming at 11am. Note this Tuesday the start of the tournament of a particularly spectacular sport, 3×3 basketball with the two French men's and women's teams qualified for these Olympics and entered in the group stage.

06:17 – French triathletes constrained to wait

The postponement of the triathlon scheduled for this Tuesday will be closely followed on the blue side. Pierre Le Corre, Léo Bergère and Dorian Coninx are three good medal chances for the French clan. Léo Bergère was crowned world champion in 2022, followed a year later by Dorian Coninx while Pierre Le Corre is also among the best in the world. French triathlon has never won an individual medal at the Olympic Games but had opened its counter at Tokyo in 2021 thanks to the mixed relay.

The male triathletes competing in the Olympic Games will have to wait. The organizers announced this Tuesday morning the postponement of the Olympic individual triathlon event after analyses showed insufficient water quality in the Seine. The competition was scheduled for this Tuesday morning starting at 8 a.m. The decision was made at following a meeting held last night between the Olympic organisers, the International Triathlon Federation, the IOC and local authorities. “Analyses carried out in the Seine today revealed water quality levels that did not offer sufficient guarantees to allow the “event” to take place. A postponement date has already been set. announced: Wednesday in the wake of the women's event scheduled for 8 a.m. The start of the men's event is now scheduled for 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. A postponement is still possible at Friday, the date listed as the last resort.

07/29/24- 11:30 PM – To be continued tomorrow

The Popov brothers in badminton, the French handball players, judo, rowing, basketball players, water polo and even Léon Marchand, tomorrow's schedule is set to be very busy again. Medals may still fall to the French clan that has already 16 medals after three days. 

07/29/24 – 11:20 PM – The sabre double is historic!

Sara Balzer and Manon Apithy-Brunet is the 5th double after war of history at the Olympic Games. 

07/29/24 – 11:04 PM – Frenchmen Kauli Vaast and Joan Duru in quarterfinals face to face

In Tahiti, the Blues perform. Unfortunately, one of the two French surfers will stop in the quarter-finals because Kauli Vaast and Joan Duru will face each other on the wave of Teahupoʻo.

07/29/24 – 10:58 PM – The recap of today's medals

What a great day for the French surfers who had a sensational day with 8 new medals. 

  • Canoë : Nicolas Gestin, gold
  • &Equestrian: complete by éteams, Karim Laghouag and Triton Fontaine, Stéphane Landois, silver
  • Fencing: sabre, Manon Apithy-Brunet, gold
  • Fencing: sabre, Sara Balzer, silver
  • Judo: Sarah-Léonie Cysique, bronze
  • Judo: Joan-Benjamin Gaba, silver
  • Shooting arc  by éteams:  Baptiste Addis, Thomas Chirault and Jean-Charles Valladont, silver 
  • VTT:  Victor Koretzky, silver

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From July 24 with the first events of rugby & 7 to the finals of team sports such as handball with the women's final, discover all the detailed calendars of the main events of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Match times, results and rankings, discover all the essential information to follow the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

For these Olympic Games, France's ambition is very high. If the medal forecasts promise a top 3, the organization and even the president are banking on a top 5 with a record number of medals. Several big French stars are expected during the Olympic Games. We are thinking in particular of Léon Marchand in swimming who could be the biggest star of these Games. But team sports with handball, basketball, volleyball, football, could also bring their share of trinkets. Finally, what can we say about judo with in particular its spearhead Teddy Riner or fencing, still the most prolific sport.

Teilor Stone

By Teilor Stone

Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116