It comes after a racism scandal involving Argentine players who sang an offensive song about French players of African descent. Friday’s game ended with a massive brawl after the final whistle.
France eliminated Argentinaworld and Pan American soccer champion, after winning 1-0 on Friday in Bordeaux, in a heated match that ended with a massive brawl after more than ten minutes of added time.
The Argentine players were booed when they took the field to face France in the Paris Olympics soccer quarterfinal match on Friday.
The first Argentine players took the field at the Bordeaux stadium amidst boos around 8:10 p.m., almost an hour before kickoff. The stadium’s music system then drowned out much of the booing, something we’ve seen before in these Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
And Racism scandal had heated up the party’s preludesfollowing a video in which Argentine players sang an offensive song about French players of African descent while celebrating their victory in the Copa América last month.
The other semi-final is Spain – Morocco. Both will take place on August 5 and are expected to two of the organizing countries of the 2030 Soccer World Cup Have a fast-paced game, all our luck to ‘la Roja’.
The Argentine teams have been booed several times since they set foot in Paris
Early on Friday, The Argentine handball team was booed upon entering the Arena South stadium in Paris, but the boos quickly calmed down in the venue.
Last week, Argentine rugby sevens players were booed raucously and constantly by the 69,000 spectators at the Stade de France during a quarterfinal match against the home team.
Despite the off-field tensions that preceded this soccer quarterfinal match, security measures were not increased and the local police prefecture declared that the security forces stuck to the initial plan.
They deployed more than 400 police and gendarmerie officers for the match, in addition to 100 soldiersand security forces used drones to contribute to the security of the event.
Alcaraz and Djokovic will fight for Olympic gold in men’s singles tennis, Marchand continues to dominate swimming
On the other hand, the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz will face Serbian Novak Djokovic this Sundayafter both respectively eliminated the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and the Italian Lorenzo Musetti.
The Neutral Athletes team won its first gold medal thanks to the Belarusian athlete Ivan Litvinovich, who defended his Olympic title in men’s trampoline. Previously, Belarusian Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya had won the team’s first medal at Paris 2024, a silver, in the same category.
In swimming, Leon Marchand completed a dominant streak by hanging his fourth goldthis time in the 200 individual meters.
In rowing, the Netherlands’ Marloes Oldenburg celebrated the gold medal in the women’s class four, two years after undergoing life-threatening back surgery following a nasty bicycle accident.
“Unbelievable,” Oldenburg said. “For everyone who needs a little inspiration, it is possible to break your neck and win Olympic gold,” she said after the race.
Spain gets its first gold and virtually has 7 medals
Yesterday Spain premiered the gold medal table when the sailing athletes won Diego Botín y Florian Trittel the medal of 49er sailing gold.
ADVERTISINGThis medal is added, chronologically, to that of the judoka Fran Garrigós who got the bronze in the category of Men’s Judo under 60 kg.
The second Spanish medal has arrived from the hand of the runner Alvaro Marti gives bronze to Spain in the test of the 20 kilometers walk. The third medal has arrived from the hand of the runner Maria Perez who has achieved silver in 20 kilometer march feminine.
Enmanuel Reyes and Carlos Alcaraz They will give Spain two more medals in the Games: but they are not yet added to the medal table until the type of metal is known. The fourth has been for Pau Echaniz who has achieved bronze in k1 slalom piragism.
There are still other medals at stake such as Sara Sorribes and Cristina Bucsa who will fight for bronze in women’s doubles tennis or in Women’s Footballfor example, in addition to our track athletes, a sport where several world records are being broken.
ADVERTISINGOn the Europe team, France notably leads with 11 golds12 silver and 13 bronze, in fact it is number two right now, just behind China, which has fewer medals, but two more golds. France won the Olympic games in 1984, exactly 40 years ago.
You can follow the live medal table herewhere we will update the medals in real time.
