VIDEO. Paris 2024 Olympic Games: “Lobster”, “constipation”, “feet on the moon”… when French basketball players have fun in interviews

Victor Wembanyama et ses coéquipiers ont fêté leur médaille d'argent. Capture d'écran – France Télévisions/France 2.

Passée la tristesse de leur défaite en finale des Jeux Olympiques face aux États-Unis, les Bleus de l'équipe de France de basket se sont amusés lors de leur interview.

Good humor seems to have returned to the blue camp. The French basketball team set itself a challenge during its time at the France club: to use certain improbable words in a live interview on the 1 p.m. news on France 2, which gave rise to some funny sentences.

“Everyone thought we were lobsters”

“Last week, we were really not good. “Everyone thought we were lobsters” , said Nicolas Batum, the first to try the exercise. Guerschon Yabusele then went one better, about his “poster” dunk on LeBron James. “When I put that dunk, I felt like I had my feet on the moon", he commented. 

It was then Victor Wembanyama's turn, but with a much harder word to place than his teammates… “We are proud of this crowd. I am also proud of my teammates, of their constipation… uh, self-denial! Throughout the tournament, we have done great things and we are proud of it", explained the San Antonio Spurs player.