Oui, Paris-Saint-Germain won in extremis against Angers thanks to a penalty from Kylian Mbappé at the very end of the match.
Yes, Lille bowed on the lawn of promoted Clermont a few days before their Champions League match against Sevilla.
Yes, the Kenyan Elisha Rotich broke the Paris marathon record while the Ethiopian Tigist Memuye won in the women.
But there were other things that happened this weekend that you might have missed.
The three weekend lessons
- Your pain in patience, you will take
Sébastien Ogier knew it before the start of the Rally de Catalunya: to land an 8e world title, he had to finish this round with at least seven points more than his competitor for the coronation, Elfyn Evans. It’s missed this time. The French driver will have to validate his first place in the world championship during the last round of the season, in Monza (November 18-21).
On the roads of Catalonia, Ogier found himself in difficulty and finished 4e at the end of the three days of racing, behind Thierry Neuville (1er), Elfyn Evans (2e) and Daniel Sordo (3e). “We were aiming much higher when we arrived here but we weren’t able to do better. We still take important points for the championship, fortunately ”, Ogier explained. With 17 points ahead of the Monza rally, the Frenchman is still in a good position to clinch the title. As long as you avoid going off the road on Italian roads, which cost Evans the coronation last season.
- The bosses, you will outclass
The Seniors titles of the Samse Biathlon Summer Tour – Trophée @Caisse_Epargne on the Sprint d’Arçon go to the ju… https://t.co/363rLEHa4b
We knew Florent and Fabien Claude well. Now place for the youngest, Emilien Claude. At 22, the last of the siblings won his very first national title on Saturday by becoming French sprint champion on the wheeled ski slope of Arçon (Doubs). A little over a month before the start of the biathlon season, on November 28 in Finland, the young biathlete had fun by taming the big favorites of the event. “For my first year in seniors, I wasn’t hoping for so much”, reacted the French after the test.
With a clear shot, Emilien Claude therefore finished ahead of Quentin Fillon Maillet (2e), his brother Fabien (8e), Antonin Guigonnat (9e) or Simon Desthieux, vice-world champion in the discipline (14e). Emilien Jacquelin, who resumed competition after his left arm fracture last August, finished 4e. The unexpected Rémi Broutier, 21, managed to climb to the 3e square. This Saturday, in the Doubs, the youth was in power. The experienced regained the upper hand on Sunday, with the victory of Fillon-Maillet in the pursuit ahead of Jacquelin and Fabien Claude.
- Your ecological conscience, you will question
Take the plane for a trip of ten minutes? That’s the odd idea of the weekend, which put the Manchester United club at the center of all criticism, before and after their game against Leicester on Saturday. In question, therefore, this decision to fly to the city of Leicester, located 170 kilometers and about two and a half hours by car from Manchester. Paul Pogba’s club justified this choice by explaining that a portion of the highway generally used for this route was closed due to works.
Rather than using a detour, the Red Devils therefore opted for a private jet, much less ecological. The story has caused a lot of talk across the Channel, while the Mancunian club entered into a partnership with Renewable Energy Group last July, in order to strengthen its involvement in the fight against global warming. These few minutes spent on the plane discredited this initiative and the nightmare weekend of the Red Devils ended in a defeat on the lawn of Leicester (2-4).
The weekend image
The 37e World water ski races were held until Sunday in Florida, the cradle of the discipline. On the Sunset Lakes stretch of water in Groveland, a French woman stood out in the slalom event. Reigning world champion, Manon Costard this time finished third behind Canadian Jaimee Bull and American Regina Jaquess.
The declaration of the weekend
“I took a big risk. Normally, it was not possible that he could play. “
The Dutch coach of Olympique Lyonnais, Peter Bosz, can congratulate himself on having listened to the somewhat crazy determination of his Brazilian player Lucas Paqueta, who had played forty-two hours earlier with his selection against Uruguay. After a transatlantic flight, the international Auriverde went out of his way to be in the OL group for the Saturday night reception of Monaco in Ligue 1.
The vibe in the stadium when #Paqueta comes in #OLASM https://t.co/7vhvFedoTP
Bosz tells the following: “I shouldn’t bring him in. He wanted to be titular. This afternoon, at the hotel, we walked, and we told him to stay in his room to sleep. I took a big risk, but it ended well. ” At 0-0, his entry into play at the 66e minute changed everything and Lyon finally won 2-0.
The weekend team
In the absence of the overwhelming majority of Olympic judokas – with the exception of Guillaume Chaine – the French judo team achieved a good harvest of medals during the Grand Slam in Paris this weekend. They are fourteen, eight women and six men, to have won a podium. None won gold but five made it to the final (Mélanie Legoux Clément, Astride Gneto, Théo Riquin, Léa Fontaine and Cyrille Maret).
The nine others thus collected a bronze medal: Shirine Boukli, Blandine Pont, Manon Deketer, Romain Valadier-Picard, Walide Khyar, Orlando Cazorla, Julia Tolofua, Coralie Hayme and Joseph Terhec. The succession of the Blues is already ready and emulation with the oldest can only be beneficial three years before the Paris Olympic Games.
The weekend figure
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Like the number of players from the top 25 of the ATP ranking present in the last four of the Indian Wells tournament. A first in the history of the Masters 1000, out of 280 tournaments played since 1990. Cameron Norrie (26e world), Grigor Dimitrov (28e), Taylor Fritz (39e) and Nikoloz Basilashvili (36e) managed to make it to the semifinals of Indian Wells.
A bonus for inexperience, since only the Bulgarian Dimitrov had won a Masters 1000, in Cincinnati in 2017, among those present in the last four. The other three had never gone beyond the knockout stages of a tournament in this category. It was Briton Cameron Norrie who finally won the tournament in the final against Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili (3-6, 6-4, 6-1).