By Le Figaro
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Find out what caught the attention of the Figaro editorial team this sports weekend before the start of the school year.
Alex Lanier in the spotlight. Still unknown to French sport until this last weekend of August, the badminton prodigy has become the new French nugget of racket sports. The first Frenchman to win, in style, a 750 tournament in Yokohama this Sunday, the student at the Sorbonne has made a name for himself, he who had not been selected for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Well selected and brilliant at the Stade de France in early August, Armand Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen continued their momentum. The former set a 10th world record in pole vaulting, now at 6.26m, while the latter smashed a record long thought to be impossible, that of the 3,000m, on the Chorzow tartan in Poland.
On the football weekend side, Kylian Mbappé has still not unblocked his counter with Real Madrid in La Liga. Volunteering for his first home game, Real’s new number 9 sinned in the last move and was unable to get his name on the scoresheet against Valladolid this Sunday (3-0). The day before, Erling Haaland had shown him that the seasons follow one another and are similar in England, with a first hat-trick for his first at the Etihad Stadium, during the stroll against promoted Ipswich Town (4-1). At the same time, OL was (already) sinking into crisis, defenseless against Monaco (0-2), according to unfortunate attitudes that recalled those of last year.
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2024-08-26 06:44:12