Roland-Garros, Top 14, Tour de France women… The sports department of Figaro took part in the game of predictions on French athletes or events taking place in France not to be missed this year.
- Vendée Globe: 10e will this edition be one of all records?
OUI. The triumph should not escape Charlie Dalin (Macif) or to Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa). Their arrival in Les Sables d’Olonne is scheduled between January 14 and 16, which is at least 7 days better than the 76 days of Armel Le Cléac’h in 2017. The record for the event will be shattered and it is not not impossible that that of the smallest gap between the winner and his runner-up is also improved (3h17 between François Gabart and Le Cléac’h in 2013). A third record seems set to fall, that of the number of sailors managing to complete the loop. To date only 5 navigators (out of 40 initially) have given up. An excellent score which only needs to be confirmed but many skippers are still very far from the finish.
- Will the Blues of handball bounce back after the failure of the Games?
NON. The cataclysmic scenario at the end of the quarter-final of the Paris Games between France and Germany, which saw the Blues lose in overtime (34-35), remains in everyone’s minds. Starting with those, inevitably…
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