AFP – On the first floor for basketball, then in the basin of the Aquatics Centre, there will be at the Blues Sunday menu OJ two huge pieces 'made in USA': the Dream Team N. 6 Kobe Bryant and Lebron James and the 4x100m relay Phelps et al.

For the opening of the basketball tournament for men London Olympics, the draw took out the grand prize: a game between the defending Olympic champions and the band at Tony Parker. The challenge will be up to the event for El Tri.

With five champions Beijing 2008 Olympic and five world champions in Istanbul in 2010, Team USA looks more like the real "Dream Team" of 1992, which celebrates the twentieth anniversary, as ; the sad troop of 2004, the only one who missed the gold.

If the French, European finalists in 2011, say they have "no fear" and repeat that Team USA is "not unbeatable," the balance heavily in favor American superheroes. A French victory would be one of the greatest achievements of these Games.

Similarly, a 4x100m relay victory in the blue water Sunday night at 10:00 p.m., facing Phelps, Lochte and co, would be a first: the French have never won this e ; evidence, which the Americans have come out victorious eight times at the Olympics, for only two losses.

Revenge

Problem: there will be that the American ogre to fight for the gold. According to all the tipsters, the Australians are the favorites of James Magnussen, "missile".

In case of EHEC the relay, the Blues will have another chance at a medal, a little before. Still in the water, with Camille Muffat. Best time of the year 400 freestyle, gold holds out his arms.

A follow too: the battle of Bolade Apithy, Men's Sabre, fencing, and that of Tony Estanguet, in canoe single, in the waters of the River Lee, for the slalom. Olympic champion in Sydney and Athens, Pau would get his due after an unsuccessful campaign in Beijing.

Another man will revenge tomorrow in mounting the ring, the boxer Norman Alexis Vastine want erase four years of frustration after his defeat in Beijing on an arbitral incomprehensible for an EM bronze medal with a bitter taste.