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For a few hours now, the Paris sky has been lit up with, for a long month of exploits and sharing, an unparalleled flame to kick off an incomparable competition. A month of dreams and, naturally, and this is the harsh law of sport, of disappointments. New stars asserting themselves, others joining posterity by passing the baton.
Thirty-third of its name, the Parisian edition of the largest and most prestigious sporting gathering on a planetary scale that makes the greatest dream at the same time as the unknowns eager for legend, can begin. Has opened. In the pomp that befits such an event. Will follow, just after (August 28-September 8, 24), an equally captivating meeting, the seventeenth, reserved for the Paralympics.
Between dreams, ambitions, realities and limits. What about our representatives who made the trip to the French capital with, truly, the desire to rub shoulders with legend. They make an appointment with history to write new pages.
Even more beautiful. Their names are Sedjati, our man in form who is asserting himself as the new master of the 800 meters in the world and who has just dominated the last meetings, his partner in the distance. Moula who follows him closely and eager to create a surprise by offering himself a place on the podium, a third thief, Triki in triple jump who has in addition to excitement, the ambition to invite himself among the greats at the time of the medals awards (to say and confirm that Athletics, with a capital “A” and provider of born champions, always rises from its ashes).
Keylia Nemour in several events thanks to her many talents and future queen of Gymnastics but with the promise, a historic first for the national port and perhaps in Africa, of returning to Algiers with the most precious of metals, the elegant Khelif Imane (boxing) who combines talent and courage.
Driss Messaoud (judo*) who has not finished gaining strength and warning the big guys with, in the back of his mind, to strike a big blow, or Sid Azzara, a wrestler who is now established and advancing with sure steps in the world hierarchy.
Great people and promises that we feel animate the other DZ participants who know that it will be hard to hold the road in front of the strong competition that awaits them in the image of a Bidani (Weightlifting) sure of his strengths and capable of exploits. Dream big but there are limits. Limits of means but not in ambition.
That of doing at least much better than the fiasco of the last Olympics in Tokyo, in 2020, whose superstar was the COVID pandemic.
With a zero point in the Japanese capital, the national sport will have reached rock bottom and is counting on the enormous potential of the names mentioned above to rectify the situation. To do this, it will be necessary to avoid missing out at the decisive moments.
Message addressed in particular to Sedjati, Moula, Triki, Nemour and Imène Khelif who have never been so close to entering posterity. Five medals, no matter the color, at auction. Within reach for a quintet eager to shine at the highest level. In the most beautiful of competitions and against the best. Having disappeared from the final tables at the end of a Japanese edition to forget, not only for the COVID effect, Algerian sport was able to count on its Paralympic champions to, once again, shine on the screen.
Counting in particular on Athmani Skander, Abellatif Bekka, Djallal Safia, Naima Saifi and others who are almost certain to be present when the awards ceremony rings out. They dream, and they are capable of it, of gold. They assure and promise to be at the level of the hopes placed in them.
Optimistic projections are required. It has been a little too long since the national sport, with its repeated failures and scandals, has been so consistent at the highest level. It has so many sure values, so many cards in hand to come back to the surface, even if it will be necessary to know how to keep a cool head.
On a mental level, especially for athletes who have to take into account extra-sporting hazards. Often unrelated to potential. Nothing to do with predictions. So five medals (a little more?) in the bag? Allowed to dream. More than ever. Let’s play . . .