2024-05-17 13:00:05
French badminton may have at the least seven athletes on the subsequent Paris Olympic Video games. With good possibilities of medals.
Will French badminton come into the highlight on the Paris Video games? It is nonetheless too early to inform. Within the meantime, self-discipline did the job. For the primary time for the reason that sport’s entry into the Olympic program in 1992, French badminton will probably be represented in all 5 tables: 3 males and 4 gamers are assured to be a part of the celebration this summer season following the historic harvest (2 gold medals). gold and one silver) over the last European Championships.
In ladies’s singles, Qi Xuefei (Dangerous’Membership de Rostrenen) is taking part in her second Olympic marketing campaign following that in Tokyo. The adopted Breton was probably the most constant in being the French consultant. Within the males’s singles, Toma Junior Popov (Badminton Membership Fos) is the fortunate winner. Preventing along with his brother, the eldest received his place on the European Championships by qualifying for the ultimate following beating the reigning Olympic champion: Viktor Axelsen.
Nice first for males’s doubles
In males’s doubles, the Popov brothers – Toma Junior and Christo (Badminton Membership Fos) – are finally the French qualifiers. That is the primary time that France may have a pair represented on this desk on the Video games. Anne Tran (Racing Membership de France) and Margot Lambert (Purple Star Mulhouse), 2024 European Champions, are additionally anticipated on the Parisian courts this summer season. The primary Europeans to qualify, they’re now seventeenth on this planet. On the blended facet, Delphine Delrue (BC Chambly Oise) / Thom Gicquel (Purple Star Mulhouse) – for his or her second Olympic assembly – are eager to assert their first European title on the courts of the Porte de la Chapelle enviornment.
The FFBaD hopes to see this official choice enriched quickly and continues to mobilize with the assorted authorities to acquire the qualification of the second male pair Lucas Corvée/Ronan Labar following the modification of the rating made by the BWF. Lower than 4 months earlier than the beginning of the Paris 2024 badminton occasions, the latter – with out prior session – made a late modification of the rankings following a calculation error relationship once more to Might 2023 with very critical penalties. As a reminder, the FFBaD, in a communication dated April 24, requested the distinctive qualification of Lucas Corvée and Ronan Labar for the Paris 2024 Video games within the males’s doubles desk, along with that of the primary certified pair, on behalf of sporting equity and the values of Olympism.
The 7 certified and chosen badists
Qi Xuefei (Dangerous’Membership de Rostrenen)
Toma Junior Popov (Badminton Membership Fos)
Christo Popov (Badminton Membership Fos)
Anne Tran (Racing Membership de France)
Margot Lambert (Purple Star Mulhouse)
Delphine Delrue (Badminton Membership Chambly Oise)
Thom Gicquel (Purple Star Mulhouse)
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