Basketball at the 2024 Olympics: dominated by Australia, France ends its group stage on a bad note and will face Germany in the quarterfinals
Les Bleues ended their stay in the North badly. The French team lost to Australia (79-72) on Sunday, August 4, for its third and final match of the group stage.
A setback that still allows it to finish top of its group, to inherit Germany in the quarter-finals on Wednesday (6 p.m.), and to avoid the United States in its table before the final. By two small points, Australia is also qualified on goal average.
“We really have to approach this match like a minor final.” The leader Marine Fauthoux had set the stakes for this match: first place in the group for France, qualification for Australia.
And the stakes took precedence over the spectacle in a packed Pierre-Mauroy stadium, 27,193 people were present, a European record for a women’s match.A tight, rough, tough defensive match, which Jean-Aimé Toupane’s players never managed to dominate, unlike the two previous matches against Canada and Nigeria.
With their shooting skills down at half-time (36% shooting at 2/15 from three-point range), the Tricolores first found some breathing room with their captain. Sarah Michel Boury was in charge of stimulating the French women’s somewhat awkward game in the second quarter to bring the two teams to a tie at half-time (34-34).
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