2023-10-11 01:20:05
At the Olympics, Vincent Collet and the Blues will want to rediscover the cohesion that has allowed them to accumulate medals in recent years. Federico Pestellini / Federico Pestellini / Panoramic
DECRYPTION – Despite the World Cup fiasco last summer in Jakarta, the basketball Blues aim to make something new out of something old for Paris 2024.
«It’s a fail. You would have to be crazy to say otherwise“. After going off the track in the first lap during the last World Cup, when the objective was to aim for the podium, or even the title, the Blues missed their point, that’s clear. After diagnosis, made in the last weeks, it is time to find the right treatment in order to look towards Paris 2024. “We didn’t sweep the dust under the carpet», affirms the president of the French Basketball Federation (FFBB), Jean-Pierre Siutat, promising to have carried out a reflection “uncompromising» with his teams since the Jakarta fiasco. All while reaffirming that the objective remains the medal, as in Tokyo, in 2021. Despite the scale of the debacle, there will however be “no big bang but firm correction»
In short, the idea of a change… in continuity. It quickly became clear that Vincent Collet, under contract until 2024, would be renewed. “He’s the man for the job», says…
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