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The French basketball teams, men and women, each have a European championship to compete and if possible to win this year. The men of Freddy Faith will be in the running at the end of August and early September. The girls of Jean-Aimé Toupane will open the ball in June. They appear in group A with Greece, Turkey and Switzerland and will play from June 18 to 29 in Athens.
The French women's team will start their preparation campaign on Sunday, May 18, a month day before the start of the Eurobasket. After a first internship in Reims, where they had already visited the preparation of the games, the Blue will face Turkey twice, an opponent whom they will find for their entry into the Euro, On May 24 and 25 at the René Tys complex of the Champagne capital, of which once in a training match and in camera.
After a few days of rest, they will go to Brittany for a second internship in Brest where two games against Belgium await them on June 3 and 4 at Brest Arena and its 5,000 places.
Finally, to finish their preparation, the Tricolores, who aim for a third European title after those of 2001 and 2009, will do a last internship at INSEP and then in Orleans, before taking off for Athens on Sunday, June 15.
The concern at this time for the tricolor coach is to know with which players he can start the preparation: nine internationals including Marine Johannes or Gabby Williams will start, in May, the WNBA season in the United States.
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