Les Bleues lose, PSG champion and Olympics in the final… Sports news for the weekend

The sporting events not to be missed, the summary of the five major football championships and the picture of the weekend… Here is the France 24 sports summary.

Olympics in the Champions League final : a week after overturning the first leg, the Lyonnaises qualified for their 11th Champions League final by beating PSG (2-1) on Saturday. They will face FC Barcelona, ​​the defending champions. Out of 17 appearances, the OL will therefore play their 11th final, 5 more than any other team in the competition. His experience has paid off again and will be decisive in the final: Lyon, who have won the trophy 8 times, have only lost twice in the final, winning the last eight they have played including in 2022, already against Barça.

French Women’s XV miss out on Grand Slam: it was the final of the Six Nations tournament although it did not bear the name. However, in front of a record attendance for a women’s rugby match in France, 28,023 spectators, the Blues lost for the thirteenth time in a row to England (42-21), who achieved their sixth consecutive Grand Slam, on Saturday in Bordeaux.

Alizée Cornet bows: Alizé Cornet, 34, will retire after playing the Roland-Garros tournament for the last time (May 26-June 9), the French tennis player announced in an interview broadcast on Saturday on Canal Plus: “I will play my last Roland -Garros in exactly one month and I want to retire immediately (…) I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but to announce it officially, it takes a little,” declared the former world number 11 on the channel Sports Club Show.

French judo at the top of Europe : the blue judokas have reserves. The French judo team, made up mainly of Olympic failures, was crowned European champion for the second time in its history, on Sunday in Zagreb, by clearly dominating the mighty Georgian armada (4-0). After that in 2022, the Blues won a second title in this event since the competition was mixed in 2018. In the final, the French dominated the Georgians thanks to victories by Faïza Mokdar (-57 kg), Margaux Pinot (-57 kg) -70 kg), Joan- Benjamin Gaba (-73 kg) and Alexis Mathieu (-90 kg).

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PSG champion despite draw

PSG were crowned champions of France for the 12th time in their history by taking advantage of the defeat conceded by the runners-up Monaco in Lyon (3-2), on Sunday, during the 31st day of Ligue 1.

However, the Parisians had missed the target the day before at the Parc des Princes against Have (3-3) and it was therefore without a game that they achieved this crown, which in any case seemed inevitable given their lead in the rankings and their dominance. on the national stage throughout the season.

With a gap of twelve points three days before the end of L1, the matter is done in time to allow Luis Enrique’s troops to calmly plan towards their quest for a treble, with the semi-final of the League of Nations against Borussia Dortmund (May 1 and 7) and the Coupe de France final against Lyon on March 25 in Lille.

Inter Milan celebrate the title

Inter Milan celebrated their title as Italian champion, won at the beginning of the week, with a victory against Torino (2-0) and an impressive parade in the streets of Milan in front of tens of thousands of fans.

Inter, assured of being crowned for the 20th time in their history since the success (2-1) in the derby against AC Milan on Monday, signed their 28th win in 34 matches thanks to a double from Hakan Calhanoglu (56th and 60th of penalty kick). ).

Dortmund sinks and Bayern conquers before the Champions League

A few days before the first semi-final of the Champions League, Bayern and Dortmund experienced varying fortunes, the victory of Munich at home against Frankfurt (2-1) and the defeat of Borussia in Leipzig (4-1). SATURDAY.

For Borussia everything started well. Dominating at the start of the match, Dortmund logically opened the scoring in Leipzig with a sumptuous curling shot from the right foot of Jadon Sancho on the edge of the area. But BVB have multiplied the defensive errors, which do not reassure four days before they hosted Paris SG in the C1 semi-first leg. Loïs Openda (25th Bundesliga goal), Benjamin Sesko, Mohamed Simakan and Christoph Baumgartner punished Dortmund’s mistakes.

“Mano a mano” between Arsenal and Manchester City continues

Arsenal won the north London derby on Sunday against rivals Tottenham (3-2) and are ahead of Manchester City, who have a game to spare after defeating Nottingham Forest (2-0).

The chase between “Gunners” (1st, 80 pts) and “Citizens” (2nd, 79 pts), separated by a small point, promises to be exciting until the end. Liverpool (3rd, 75 points), on the other hand, now seem to have lost ground. With three days to go, Arsenal are putting some hope in the hands of their arch-rivals Tottenham, who Manchester City travel to on May 14 to play their late game.

On Sunday, Mikel Arteta’s side won on hostile soil, in a white-hot Tottenham Hotspur stadium, to keep their title chances intact, twenty years after their last one under Arsène Wenger.

There was no reason to slow down with Manchester City behind us. The three-time reigning champions did not dominate Nottingham Forest violently, but they provided the essentials with a header from Josko Gvardiol (32nd) and a shot from incoming Erling Haaland (71st), just returned from injury.

Very close to the title

Real Madrid took another step towards the 36th Spanish championship title in its history by winning against Real Sociedad (1-0), Friday in the opening match of the 33rd day, four days after the Champions League semi-final first leg against Bayern in Munich .

The Madrid club is currently fourteen points ahead of FC Barcelona, ​​its immediate follow-up, which it beat 3-2 the day before last Sunday and which only plays on Monday night at home against Valencia (8th).

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