2024-09-09 08:23:57
Paris closed a “historic” Olympic summer on Sunday evening with a final party at the Stade de France. In New York, Italian world No. 1 Jannik Sinner won his first US Open tennis tournament. The French men’s soccer team lost to Italy (3-1) on Friday at the Parc des Princes on the first day of the Nations League group stage. Les Bleus face Belgium on Monday. Here’s what to remember from the sporting weekend.
The sporting events that you shouldn’t miss, the summary of the five major football championships and the image of the weekend… Here is the France 24 Sports Recap.
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Paris says goodbye to its Games
After unforgettable Olympic and Paralympic Games, the summer of Paris 2024 came to a close with a final party at the Stade de France. The epilogue of 46 days of emotions and celebration, where France united around sport and where Paris established itself as a reference for the Games to come.
The Paris Games were officially launched on July 26th with an opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in the rain. They ended with the closing ceremony of the Paralympics in the same weather. They opened with an image of the empty Stade de France. They ended in a Dionysian stadium packed to the rafters, with an electro party like no other.
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Jannick Sinner s’impose à l’US Open
The only favourite despite psychological difficulties, Jannik Sinner confirmed that he was the best player of the year by winning his first US Open on Sunday.
The Italian world number 1 largely dominated the American Taylor Fritz (12e) 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. Relentless, the 23-year-old won in 2 hours 16 minutes of play to claim a second Grand Slam title, after winning the Australian Open in January.
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Aryna Sabalenka also wins her first title in New York
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka overcame the pressure, the crowd and especially her opponent Jessica Pegula 7-5, 7-5, to win her first US Open title on Saturday, her third Grand Slam title.
She became the fifth player in the Open era (since 1968) to win both hard-court Grand Slam tournaments (Australian Open and US Open) in the same year, after Steffi Graf (1988, 1989), Monica Seles (1991, 1992), Martina Hingis (1997) and Angelique Kerber (2016).
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The Blues’ poor return
For its return after a disappointing Euro, the French team did not reassure at all about its condition by conceding a worrying defeat in the Nations League against Italy (3-1) which plunged it into a deep doldrums, Friday at the Parc des Princes.
We expected a reaction from the Blues, two months after a European Championship marked by offensive failure and soporific play. But Didier Deschamps’ troops failed in a big way, unable to get the game going and losing heavily at home against a Nazionale who were in full crisis before arriving in Paris.
To avoid a third defeat in a row and ward off the risk of a deeper crisis, the French team and Didier Deschamps need a victory this Monday evening and a good match against Belgium in the Nations League, in Décines near Lyon.
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Ronaldo saves Portugal
Cristiano Ronaldo stepped up to the plate as the saviour, coming off the bench to give Portugal a narrow victory over Scotland (2-1) on Sunday in Lisbon on matchday two of the Nations League. Having just signed his 900the goal of his career in Portugal’s victory over Croatia (2-1) on Thursday in the opening of the competition, the 39-year-old five-time Ballon d’Or winner started on the bench for the first time since the 2022 World Cup.
The Scots opened the scoring early in the game with a header from Scott McTominay following a set piece (7e1-0), then Bruno Fernandes, who celebrated his 30th birthday on Sundaye birthday, restored equality with a long-range left-footed strike (54e1-1). Coming on at half-time, Ronaldo delivered his team just before the final whistle, scoring from close range on a pass from Nuno Mendes (88e2-1).
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Slovenian Primoz Roglic wins his 4the Vuelta
Slovenian Primoz Roglic, 34, won the Vuelta a España on Sunday after the 21st rounde and the final stage, a 24.6 kilometre time trial through the streets of Madrid, won by the Swiss Stefan Küng.
The leader of the Red Bull-Bora team, already victorious on the roads of Spain in 2019, 2020 and 2021, equals the record for the number of victories in the Vuelta set by the Spaniard Roberto Heras in the early 2000s (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005). After 21 stages and nearly 60,000 meters of elevation gain, Roglic is 2 minutes 36 seconds ahead of the Australian Ben O’Connor in the final general classification, who wore the red leader’s jersey for thirteen days.
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The Top 14 is back
Stade Toulousain, the reigning champion, made a successful start to the Top 14 on Sunday by beating RC Vannes 43-18, who played the first match in the history of Breton rugby in the first division. Without really forcing their talent, the Toulousains, who led 23-6 at half-time, managed to pocket the offensive bonus point at the siren (5 tries to 2).
For its part, La Rochelle, despite a big waste in touch and a strategy that probably needs to be reviewed, got the better of a Toulon (19-15) who were very undisciplined but realistic for their entry into the Top 14.
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Marc Marquez wins San Marino GP
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez (Ducati-Gresini) won the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano on Sunday ahead of reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), and well ahead of championship leader Jorge Martin, just 15e.
The Italian Enea Bastianini (Ducati) completes the podium of this 13e round of the season. Overall, Martin is now only seven points ahead of his runner-up Bagnaia. The Spaniard from Ducati-Pramac pays for a strategy error due to a short shower that fell during the race.
On the occasion of the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paralympic Games, France 24 takes stock of the competition and more broadly of the Paris 2024 Games. For 46 days, the French and the world experienced a golden interlude. What will we remember from this event that collectively blew us away?
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Paris closed a “historic” Olympic summer on Sunday evening, with a final party with electro sounds at the Stade de France to bring the Paralympic Games to a close.
No fewer than 24 big names in electro music, from Jean-Michel Jarre to Kungs and Kavinsky, who embody the internationally renowned electro “French Touch”, performed at the Stade de France, where the 4,400 or so para athletes were present one last time. Among them, the Chinese delegation, which finished first in this edition, for the sixth consecutive time, with 94 titles (220 medals), ahead of Great Britain (49 gold) and the United States (36 gold).
On the French side, Paralympic Boccia champion Aurélie Aubert and Para-shooting champion Tanguy De La Forest were the standard-bearers for this event: the Blues achieved their objective of entering the top 8 with 19 gold medals (75 medals in total), an objective set before the competition.
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