The French basketball players won third place in the European Championship by easily dominating Hungary (82-68), this Sunday, June 25 in Ljubljana. Despite the disappointment the day before following their defeat in the semi-final against Belgium, Les Bleues sign an unprecedented series as they climb to their eighth consecutive continental podium after their silver medals in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021 They thus write one of the longest presences on the podium of a Euro, not far from the nine medals of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s, but still at a distance from the 22 rank finals for 21 coronations of the USSR from 1950 to 1991.
