Making of L’Équipe: Rafael Nadal told by Julien Reboullet

Behind the scenes of The Team A little over three years ago, L’Équipe published a series of testimonials entitled “Making Of“, in which its reporters recounted their relationship with some of the greatest champions or clubs of the time. Julien Reboullet, senior reporter for the tennis section, gave his story of fifteen years working alongside […]

Why Rudy Gobert again missed out on a starting spot at the All-Star Game

No Frenchman has started an All-Star Game in the five major of one of the two teams on the floor. Thursday evening, Rudy Gobert approached it but the pivot of the Jazz saw Andrew Wiggins (Golden State) seize the last starting place in the “frontcourt” category (wingers and interiors) of the Western Conference, next to […]

Tom Saintfiet, Belgian coach of The Gambia: “The world is beautiful”

Tom Saintfiet, 48, fed the CAN with spicy statements about the hotel where his Gambians were staying, in “six per room”, he said, remarks reversed by his Federation in stride. The Belgian coach of Gambia, who faces Cameroon this afternoon in Douala in the quarter-finals, prefers not to go back on it. Saintfiet is an […]

PSG still fail to sell but aim for Pogba for this summer

As expected, Paris Saint-Germain‘s winter transfer window was calm. Until then and four days before its closing, the workforce has not experienced any major movement. One or two operations could still be concluded by January 31. The main objective for the club and its sporting director Leonardo was to sell, for a sum of between […]

Rafael Nadal, this left-hander who mistreats left-handers

A pioneer of neurological research in the 20th century, Henri Hécaen was a Breton psychiatrist passionate about the study of left-handers. After having swept away old smoky theories which advanced that the proportion of left-handed people, among “arrears”, was higher than that present in the “normal population”, he explained, in a book published in 1984 […]

Decryption: is the service and volley being reborn?

Maxime Cressy had a vision: “I’m going to bring serve and volley back to life. I believe it. » The French-American and his 283 services followed at the net in the first week of the Australian Open bring us back to the time of the 80s and 90s, when Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe, Stefan Edberg, […]