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00:00Selena Sykes is there for table tennis and the team event, the team event which
00:06has the host country in it and in the host country's team is a pair of
00:11brothers that by now everyone knows.
00:15That's right, François, they're very well-known here in France. Felix and
00:20Alexis Lebrun are teaming up with Simon Gauzy for a quarterfinal
00:26against Brazil in the team event in table tennis, as you probably have guessed.
00:31It's a team of three.
00:33It's a question of the best of five games.
00:37There's four singles matches and just the one double match for a best of five
00:42format. Whoever will be winning this one will be having a tough task
00:46ahead of them next because they will be facing China, who really are the ones
00:50to beat when it comes to table tennis.
00:52And this will also be, of course, a rematch between Felix Lebrun
00:56and Hugo Calderano from Brazil, who obviously fought it out
01:00for that bronze medal a few days ago.
01:02Obviously, we all know who came out on top of that one.
01:04It was Felix Lebrun.
01:06Felix Lebrun, just 17 years young, gets a bronze medal.
01:10What is it about this pair, these brothers, these siblings?
01:18There's something about them, isn't it, François?
01:19They just have this kind of energy and we always like to see a sibling duo
01:23in sport, don't we?
01:24I think it's been a while since,
01:26shall we say, maybe since the Manitou's of swimming that we've had a French pair
01:30of swirling of duos in sport.
01:33And obviously these two get the chance to play together,
01:36which is a real delight for spectators to see.
01:38Every time we've seen a Lebrun here at the Paris-Sud Arena,
01:42we've seen lots of French fans.
01:45I don't know if there's ever been such a fervor about table tennis in the past.
01:49Obviously, it's a massive sport in Asia.
01:51And also the Lebrun brothers also have more and more fans in Asia.
01:55Felix, in particular, is very well regarded in Asia,
01:59where table tennis is just an absolutely massive sport.
02:02There's also a lot of Asian fans here in general watching the table tennis.
02:06And obviously for Felix Lebrun, it was a historic bronze
02:09that he got in the table tennis, in the individual table tennis,
02:13because France hadn't had a medal in this event since 1992.
02:18So he's turning a lot of attention.
02:20Both of them are putting a lot of attention on the sport.
02:22It's maybe not one that is naturally followed a lot by French fans,
02:26but everyone is here in full fervor.
02:28And yeah, just a great duo, isn't it, Francois?
02:30And we'll be crossing to you for the results of that quarterfinal against Brazil.
02:36Many thanks, Selena Sykes, for that live update.