Par Mathilde Seifert
Published
January 23 at 7:42 p.m.,
updated January 23 at 7:56 p.m.
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Tweets review – The basketball player was the exceptional guest of the 8 p.m. TF1 newspaper on Wednesday, January 22. Beyond the interview, it is the difference in size between the two men who marked Internet users.
A major meeting. Gilles Bouleau received, this Wednesday, January 22, the French basketball player Victor Wembanyama in the TF1 20 -hour television news. And the journalist did not praise praise about the 21 -year -old young man by comparing him to the judoka Teddy Riner or to the footballers Zinedine Zidane and Kylian Mbappé.
“The prodigy of French basketball is in Paris for a few days”started the presenter even though his guest was by his side on the set live. The interview followed a report devoted to its success. Social life, personal but also the basketball player and his desire to be the best were subjects discussed. Just like its size. “You do not like that we are talking about your size and LeBron James, one of the big stars of the NBA does not talk about your size but says of you that you are an alien by your talent and your potential”underlined Gilles Bouleau.
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37 centimeters separate them
And if it is true that it is customary, for a basketball player, to be large, Victor Wembanyama approaches the largest people in France (the record being attributed to a Mosellan of 2m22 editor’s note). This physical characteristic was certainly not the heart of the interview carried out by the journalist, but it was widely commented on in the last seconds broadcast on the screen. “Thank you for agreeing to answer our questions. We hope to see you again very soon in France, […] You are here at home “warmly concluded the presenter before getting up to greet his guest. While Assis, they had the same size until then, the difference was striking when Victor Wembanyama got up.
“Here is the image that made my day even if it was in the evening,” commented a surfer under a video capture of the handshake between Wemby and birch. “He went from Gilles Bouleau to Bonzai!”, “The plan between Gilles Bouleau and Wembanyama at the end XPTERKDKFIID” or “Ptdr the basketball player who rises to shake the hand of Gilles Bouleau, the Boug puts 4 heads ????”some have stressed. “Victor Wembanyama on the TF1 tray is the same size seated as Gilles Bouleau”, “We are little against Wemby, isn’t it Gilles Bouleau?”.
For the anecdote, 37 centimeters separate the two men. The journalist operating on TF1 measures 1m84 (8 centimeters more than the average size for a French man in 2020 editor’s note) while the basketball player reaches 2m21. His greatness had already marked on TF1, when Audrey Crespo-Mara had interviewed Wembanyama as part of the portrait of “seven to eight” week. The latter had defended itself from any trick, ironic by the 61 centimeters apart.
