To be fair - France is probably the 2nd most talented team right now. Almost their entire team has played/currently plays in the NBA, and they've had back-to-back #1 picks in the draft.
I can think of worse things than being in the middle of Jess and Denise. Probably doesn't even need paying.Always wonder how the BBC get him for every major championship. You would have thought a major US network would love to have him on board for the Olympics.
Probably the 4x100m at London.Re. Michael Johnson. In one Olympics (can't remember which, but it's a fair way back) GB beat the US in final of the the men's relay (either 100m or 400m, as I say, it's a long way back). Michael Johnson was in the BBC studio, and being very gentlemanly about it. They were really baiting him, really on the wind-up. He soldiered on stoically, and then he cracked, and pointed to the US's mountain of gold medals in the table. We all really laughed.
He's a gent, with nothing to prove.
Probably the 4x100m at London.
My bad I mixed up the Olympics with the World Championships in London when GB won.That was Jamaica. Still one of the greatest races ever run. No, it goes back twenty or twenty five years, I think. Johnson started working for the beeb fairly quickly after Atlanta, I remember.
When you get to basketball height, football and rugby are non-starters! I’d venture most of these French giants were very tall 8 yr olds.Yes, it's odd how France keeps churning out top players who play in the NBA. Basketball's pretty popular over here, but it comes a long, long way behind football in its drawing power. I dare say there are even parts of the country where rugby outranks it.
Tony Parker is of course one of France's sporting legends.