I want to congratulate warmly the team of France of Handball which concluded in beauty Chinese Olympic about fifteen by winning masculine tournament. By getting the gold medal facing Iceland, the men of Claude Onesta went down in history of collective Olympic sports in the same capacity as our footbaleurs, persons who has received a medal of gold in 1984, in Los Angeles. Ten eight years after a first bronze medal in Barcelona, feat is all the nicer as it crowns an unequalled international honours list, Overalls being already double World champions (on 1995 and 2001) and European champions (2006). I do not forget the girls who made us vibrate as never in their quarter of Homeric finale facing the Russians and who would have better deserved than the 5th place.

I am besides going to offer in the national authorities of Hand and to my parliamentary colleagues to create a Friendly in return, as is it already for football, rugby or athletics, to support and to admit this discipline as it the merit.

The gold of Hand carries the total of medals from France to 40 in 16 different disciplines, it is a record since the Games of Paris of 1924! In spite of this harvest, our country checks off only on the 10th place of the classification of Nations because of weak number gold medals (7). We were still 5th in 1996 in Atlanta Le balance sheet is therefore in muted colours, in comparison with European Nations as Great Britain, Germany and Italy which finish in front of us and which were widely in our range.