There are 12.9 seconds left to play, it’s nothing at all. The French basketball team, tossed around, battered, awkward, clumsy, is seeing its second game of the Olympics slip away from it. It is trailing 84-80 by the Japanese who have made life difficult for them.
If she fails to win, she risks watching the rest of the Games on TV. Four points to make up in such a small handful of seconds, that only exists in fairy tales. We may remember that these Blues have miraculously emerged from even worse situations, but there is no one in the crowd of 26,900 people at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium to believe at this moment that it is even conceivable.
