Marine Boyer (left) hugs a tearful Mélanie De Jesus Dos Santos on July 28, 2024, during the Paris Olympic Games, in the Bercy Arena. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
After several hours of questions and speculations of all kinds, the mystery has been solved. The French women’s artistic gymnastics team, which completely missed its target on Sunday, July 28 by not obtaining any qualification for the Olympic finals of the week, has been “disturbed” by a fall of Marine Boyer “a few minutes away from entering the competition”.
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“Marine Boyer fell on her back on the uneven bars. The immediate medical assessment allowed her to compete. The tests carried out at the end of the day are reassuring.”it is written in a communication to journalists via Club France.
The incident occurred during the warm-up before the start of qualifying. The French women finished 11th, with only the top eight teams qualifying for the final stages.
After the rout of the Bleues, for whom this first day of the Games is also the last, the national technical director, Kévin Rabaud, spoke to journalists about“A Nightmare Competition” et “the worst case scenario”. He had mentioned “a strong disturbance” occurred just before arriving on the set, without giving further details, and which could explain according to him in part “the form of shock” et « d’absence » French athletes.
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Melanie de Jesus dos Santos in tears
“We looked at each other, it was quite special, there was our body and there was us”tried to explain Coline Devillard, 13th in the jump. “We had some problems on the warm-up lap, we had trouble getting into it. It was much more complicated than expected, I don’t know why we weren’t able to handle it. (…) I was stressed but maybe not stressed enough.”continued Morgane Osyssek, “extremely disappointed” and for whom it was not ” no way “ as she“had imagined”.
Team bronze medallists at the World Championships last October in Antwerp (Belgium), the French women Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos, Marine Boyer, Coline Devillard, Ming Gherardi van Eijken and Morgane Osyssek did not manage to reach the final on Sunday, whether for the team event, the individual all-around competition or the four apparatus. Their best result was a 10th place on the beam, achieved by Marine Boyer, their captain, in an Arena Bercy that was nevertheless overheated to support them.
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The disappointment was terrible, especially for Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos, four European champion titles to her name, who ended up in tears, having gone to train two years ago in the United States alongside American star Simone Biles to prepare for these Games at home.
French gymnastics now places all its hopes of a medal in the person of Samir Aït Saïd, who qualified on Saturday in 3rd position for the rings final which will be held on Sunday August 4.
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2024-07-29 00:42:08
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