2023-08-22 00:18:08
Christo and Toma Junior Popov Baptiste Autissier / Baptiste Autissier / Panoramic
While immense challenges await them at the World Championships in Copenhagen, discovery of two brothers who could change the perception of this sport in view of Paris 2024.
On one side the badminton players Toma and Christo Popov. On the other, table tennis players Alexis and Félix Lebrun. Seeing siblings shine in the same discipline is nothing really new. The history of French sport is paved with glorious examples, from Bertrand and Guillaume Gille in handball to Laure and Florent Manaudou in swimming, via Théo and Lucas Hernandez in football. The list is long. Very long. On the other hand, what is more unusual lies in the fact of seeing the emergence at the same time, in two so-called racket sports, of two equally ambitious siblings, in disciplines where France has only rarely had the opportunity to shine on the internationally. What might change…
In particular in badminton, which became an Olympic discipline in Barcelona in 1992 and which has never seen any French representative on the podium. An observation that is also valid in terms of the World Championships on the men’s side, the only Hongyan Pi having succeeded in the women’s category with…
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