The French men’s gymnastics team failed to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games, after finishing in 19th place in the World Championships qualifications on Sunday in Antwerp. The Blues had to finish in the top 12 in the world to qualify the team and at the same time ensure a quota of five individual places. But they finished far from the objective set after a disappointing competition.
Benjamin Osberger, Lucas Desanges, Jim Zona, Kevin Carvalho and Léo Saladino started with the rings and finished with the formidable pommel horse, prone to penalties. Having little margin, they didn’t really have any room for error. After a decent start to the competition, they began to make a series of errors from the parallel bars before collectively collapsing on the pommel horse. This is the second time in a row that the Blues have not qualified as a team for the Games after the failure in Tokyo.
There will nevertheless remain three individual quotas to be obtained during the World Cup stages or during the European Championships next spring but qualification by this route promises to be very complicated.