VIDEO. “We're going to experience an exceptional Saturday with team sports”: our journalist Dominique Mercadier's favorite at the Paris 2024 Olympics

As every morning, find the favorite of our journalist Dominique Mercadier, specialist of the Olympic Games and present in Paris on the competition sites.

It's already the penultimate day of competition, but France still has many chances for medals. For our journalist Dominique Mercadier, this Saturday could be “an exceptional day with all the team sports in the final”.

The volleyball players of Nicolas Le Goff, Jean Patry and Benjamin Toniutti are playing at 1:00 p.m. against Poland to try to retain their Olympic title won in Tokyo. ” It would be a magnificent double, no team has achieved this feat since the great Russia and the United States”, comments our journalist.

Not forgetting the handball players and France – USA in men's basketball.

Avoiding the fanny in athletics

The French are under threat of a 0 point in athletics. They still haven't won a single medal after two fourth places yesterday in the women's 4×100-meter relay and Clément Ducos in the 400-meter hurdles.

“All eyes will be on the Stade de France”, explains Dominique Mercadier, “apart from Gabriel Tual in the 800 meters, it's hard to see who could change all that.”