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The Toulouse team will fight in the Olympic final this Wednesday and Thursday, on a ring set up in the middle of the central court at Roland-Garros. Three years after the Tokyo Olympics without a podium for the French team.
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There is something between Toulouse and boxing. Fans of French song will inevitably think of Claude Nougaro and his “four leather balls” that “turn in the light” (remember to roll your r’s). Today, followers of the noble art will rather say: Sofiane Oumiha and Billal Bennama. The first is a child of Mirail, a vast city on the edge of Toulouse, with its share of fantasies, dirty stories and destinies torn from determinism. The second was shaped in Blagnac, with Airbuses roaring overhead, by a coach father whose sensitive guts prevent him from watching his offspring’s fights (he drinks coffee alone while waiting for his son’s post-fight phone call). The story could be even more beautiful for the two southerners, roommates in the Olympic village. Both are preparing, this Wednesday and Thursday, to play a final in the setting of Roland-Garros, where they will not only beat the clay, for the space of a week.
Captain of the French boxing squad called “Team Renaissance” – a reference to the Tokyo air pocket (zero podium) –, Oumiha thus offers her second Olympic final, at
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