Basketball. France – Israel in Caen: Normandy Dominique Malonga expected to dunk

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She has just made history. During ASVEL's victory against Limassol (115-54) in the Eurocup, Tuesday October 30, 2024, the young interior Dominique Malonga took advantage of a counterattack to release a one-handed dunk and become the first French woman to dunk in the middle of a match.

A prodigy from Normandy

However, she could have already achieved this feat a few months ago. Remember, on the occasion of the meeting between the French team and Serbia on July 12, the prodigy from Flers (Orne)well served by her Norman teammate Marine Johannèscame very close to achieving this feat. “It will be soon,” she then warned the journalists present for this preparation match for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. We can say that she quickly kept her word.

A feat that she “had in her legs”

I had it in my legs for a few matches. When I was doing it during the warm-up for several weeks, I heard the crowd cheering for me, I knew they were waiting for it, me too.

Although she plans to make this action “something regular”, the Normandy, best hope of the 2023-2024 season, with Tarbes, nevertheless refuses to be reduced to the role of “the one who only dunks”. She wants to highlight “many other facets” of her game.

Facets that she intends to show in the jersey of the France team, during the qualifying match for the 2025 European Championship against Israel, this Thursday, November 7 at the Palais des Sports Caen-la-Mer .

See you this Thursday evening to see if Dominique Malonga, continuing her high-quality start to the season, will become the first French woman to dunk in the Bleues jersey and inscribe her name in the Pantheon of French sport.

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