Not just Jannik Sinner, how many heavy absences in Paris 2024
Pogacar, Mbappé but also the Argentine national basketball team and many others
It is now here. Friday, with the opening ceremony, the Paris Olympics will begin. A review in which all the best athletes of the sporting world are present. To be fair, not quite all of them. The list of stars who will not participate in the rainbow review è quite substantial. The latest to forfeit, due to physical problems, è was tennis number 1 Sinner.
A few hours earlier came the no from Pogacar, cycling’s absolute number one. The Slovenian, winner of the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France, preferred to forgo the Olympics to focus on the World Cup. He would have loved to be there, Mbappé the best soccer player in the world, but Real Madrid, his new team, advised him not to participate.
The absence of Argentina's national basketball team also weighed. It hasn't missed an Olympics since as far back as 1984 and, usually, è always been a major player. Staying in basketball, Leonard's name does not appear on the Dream Team. Considered one of the best NBA players, è he was "cut" due to physical problems (in his place White of the Celtics).
As for athletics, Rojas, reigning champion in the triple jump, will not be able to defend the gold medal she won in Tokyo 2020 due to a ruptured Achilles tendon. Same injury for Thompson-Herah, a gold medalist in the 100 and 200 meters at both Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Fortunately, there will be plenty of other stars to focus on in Paris.
