Basketball: Wembanyama believes that “gold is very achievable” at the Paris 2024 Olympics

The Blues in gold at the Olympics? Victor Wembanyama makes no secret of it, this is his objective. If he gave up the 2023 World Cup, after having withdrawn from Euro 2022, the 20-year-old prodigy will, barring injury, be present next summer at the Paris Games (July 27-August 10 for the men's 5x5 basketball). And he does not intend to make the trip empty, he who exceeds all expectations in the NBA. A failure to leave without the gold medal around your neck? “I will see it as a failure if I think we could have done better. And at the same time, I think that the gold medal is very achievable if we play in such a way as not to have regrets,” he declared this Thursday in San Antonio (via L’Équipe ), he who describes the Olympic tournament as “something enormous and which makes (him) dream. An event that I have watched since I was little.

Remember that the draw was made on Tuesday, in Switzerland. The Blues inherited a group made up of world champions Germany and Japan, as well as the future winner of the Latvian TQO, where the Latvian team will be the big favorite. “We have a potentially trap group, even if it seems interesting and affordable for us,” analyzes Wembanyama, a four-time international but who will play his first major tournament this summer with the A. A trial attempt which could have the appearance of masterstroke at the finish? The French men's team has won silver twice at the Olympic Games, in 2000 in Sydney and in 2021 in Tokyo.