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Auction 09 October 2020 A CENTURY OF SPORTS PHOTOS - THE TEAM - Paris

Bid on the lot list Boisgirard - Antonini : 09 October 2020 - UN SIÈCLE DE PHOTOS DE SPORT - L'EQUIPE VENDREDI 9 OCTOBRE 2020 À 14H - SALLE 9 DROUOT - 9, rue Drouot 75009 Paris PRESENCE A LA VENTE UNIQUEMENT SUR RESERVATION EN RAISON DES NOUVELLES CONTRAINTES SANITAIRES LIEES AU COVID 19 EXPOSITIONS PUBLIQUES 7 Octobre de 11h à 18h 8 Octobre de 11h à 20h Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

A CENTURY OF SPORTS PHOTOS - THE TEAM

Friday 09 October 2020 - 14:00 (CEST) - Live

Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris

Boisgirard - Antonini

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Lot n° 1

Kylian Mbappé - 2018 World Cup...

Kylian Mbappé - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team July 15, 2018. Kylian Mbappé is 19 years old. Thirteen years ago, he took a license at AS Bondy. Nine years ago, he entered the National Football Institute in Clairefontaine. Three years ago, he made...

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Lot n° 2

Kylian Mbappé, France-Belgium -...

Kylian Mbappé, France-Belgium - World Cup 2018 © Franck Faugère/L'Équipe 10 July 2018. The football planet which has been discovering him for five matches sees Kylian Mbappé racing towards the final. Flashed at 32.4 km/h during the 8th France-Argentina...

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Lot n° 3

Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann,...

Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann, Samuel Umtiti, Raphaël Varane, Olivier Giroud, France-Belgium - 2018 World Cup © Richard Martin/Team July 10, 2018. It was in the 51st minute of the semi-final against Belgium that Samuel Umtiti headed the winning goal....

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Lot n° 4

Paul Pogba, Kylian Mbappé, France-Croatia...

Paul Pogba, Kylian Mbappé, France-Croatia - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team July 15, 2018. In six minutes, Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappé consolidated Les Bleus' lead over Croatia. A left-footed shot from the Mancunien, a right-footed cross for the...

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Lot n° 5

Paul Pogba - 2018 World Cup © Pierre...

Paul Pogba - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team July 15, 2018. Paul Pogba lingers on the lawn of the Loujniki Stadium, which is attached to the World Cup. The rain that falls on Moscow sweeps away tears, the supreme victory erases doubts. In a new,...

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Lot n° 6

Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappé,...

Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappé, France-Argentina - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team June 30, 2018. Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé are having a crazy game against Messi's Argentina. The French duo never stops bouncing the score of this 8th...

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Lot n° 7

Adil Rami, Antoine Griezmann, France-Croatia...

Adil Rami, Antoine Griezmann, France-Croatia - World Cup 2018 © Franck Faugère/Team July 15, 2018. Adil Rami did not play a single minute of the World Cup, but he has his rightful place in Didier Deschamps' line-up. If we see Antoine Griezmann touching...

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Lot n° 8

Kylian Mbappé, Thomas Lemar, Djibril...

Kylian Mbappé, Thomas Lemar, Djibril Sidibé, Blaise Matuidi - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team July 15, 2018. That's it, the French team beat Croatia (4-2), they are world champions. Mbappé seems incredulous. Matuidi, replaced, Lemar and Sidibé,...

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Lot n° 9

Hugo Lloris, Uruguay-France - 2018...

Hugo Lloris, Uruguay-France - 2018 World Cup © Franck Faugère/Team July 6, 2018. At the end of his 1.88m, his arm, his glove, Hugo Lloris saves a goal that Uruguayan Martin Caceres' head thought was unstoppable. Like (from left to right) Suarez, Stuani,...

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Lot n° 10

Benjamin Pavard, France-Argentina...

Benjamin Pavard, France-Argentina - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe June 30, 2018. The goal that Benjamin Pavard just scored against Argentina in the 57th minute, bringing France back to a 2-2 draw, is one that we never forget. It was a right-footed...

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Lot n° 11

The French World Champion Team...

The French World Champion Team - 2018 World Cup © Franck Faugère/L'Équipe 15 July 2018. In Moscow, the blue world champions are living this "eternal happiness" which will appear on the front page of "L'Équipe" the next day. Photographer Franck Faugère...

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Lot n° 12

Training before the France-Belgium...

Training before the France-Belgium swimming meet, Paris - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 4 août 1920. The French swimming team trains in the La Villette basin, before facing its Belgian counterpart. Inkjet printing on baryta paper. Single posterior print....

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Lot n° 13

Women's football: France-England...

Women's football: France-England - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 31 October 1920. After their tour across the Channel in April, the French footballers (in white) receive the English at the Pershing stadium in front of 10,000 spectators. "Success of curiosity",...

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Lot n° 14

Competition of the French Professionals,...

Competition of the French Professionals, Golf de La Boulie - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe November 1920. The passion for golf has crossed the Channel for about twenty years when these French professionals met in Versailles, on the course of La Boulie....

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Lot n° 15

Pole vaulting, French championships...

Pole vaulting, French championships - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 18 July 1920. On that day, in the Pershing stadium built the previous year in the Bois de Vincennes, the French pole vaulting championship was won at 3.60 m. That's already very high when...

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Lot n° 16

International Cup of Carts - 1920...

International Cup of Carts - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 29 August 1920. On the starting line of the Sarthe circuit, at the wheel of cart n°23, the Frenchman Ernest Friederich is about to complete the perfect race, at an average speed of almost 92 km/h....

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Lot n° 17

France-Belgium Swimming Meeting,...

France-Belgium Swimming Meeting, Paris - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe August 8, 1920. A century before Paris-Plage, the Villette basin in the 19th arrondissement attracted a large audience to watch a match between the best Belgian and French swimmers...

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Lot n° 18

Boxing meeting in Deauville - 1920...

Boxing meeting in Deauville - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 5 September 1920. In a few years, Deauville became the capital of leisure activities. Sea baths, horse racing, casino... No wonder boxing came to set up its rings on the beach. The weather is...

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Lot n° 19

100m - Olympic Games 1920 © Collections...

100m - Olympic Games 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 16 August 1920. Not surprisingly, the best sprinter of the time, Charles Paddock, won the 100m at the Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium, in 10''8. It was the American's technique that was surprising, as...

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Lot n° 20

Gordon-Bennett Cup - 1920 © Collections...

Gordon-Bennett Cup - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe September 28, 1920. The farmers of the Beauce had a front row seat when the Nieuport-Delage, piloted by Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, made the impeccable turn that allowed it to win the Gordon-Bennett Cup. This...

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Lot n° 21

Ernest Cadine - Weightlifting Champion...

Ernest Cadine - Weightlifting Champion 1920 © Collections L'Équipe October 9, 1920. It was a time when strong men shone both in the stadiums and on the stage. Thus Ernest Cadine, who poses here after his Olympic title in Antwerp (the first for French...

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Lot n° 22

100m of the Prix Blanchet - 1920...

100m of the Prix Blanchet - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 13 June 1920. Two months before the Antwerp Olympic Games, the cream of French athletics meets in the heart of the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris, to compete in an inter-club competition. The stars...

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Lot n° 23

Félix Goethals - Col de l'Aubisque,...

Félix Goethals - Col de l'Aubisque, Tour de France 1920 © Collections L'Équipe July 7, 1920. The 6th stage of the 14th Tour de France may lead the peloton from Bayonne to Luchon (326 km) through the Pyrenees, but the race remains the business of the...

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Lot n° 24

Red Star-Olympique de Paris - 1920...

Red Star-Olympique de Paris - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe September 19, 1920. This is the second day of a new championship organised by the "Ligue parisienne de football association". On its Saint-Ouen pitch, the Red Star (striped jersey) was beaten...

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Lot n° 25

Carriage race at the Parc des Princes...

Carriage race at the Parc des Princes - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 19 September 1920. Inaugurated in 1897 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the Parc des Princes is both a stadium and a velodrome that cyclists lend from time to time to motorbikes...

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Lot n° 26

Henri Siret, Tour pédestre de Paris...

Henri Siret, Tour pédestre de Paris - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe September 12, 1920. When he passes this hill, boulevard Lefebvre, Henri Siret (dark jersey) is not far from winning his 7th Tour pédestre de Paris. At the age of 34, he completed in 3...

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Lot n° 27

Track Cycling World Championships...

Track Cycling World Championships - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe August 8, 1920. Before giving way the next day to the Olympic Games, the World Championships took centre stage on the track at the Antwerp velodrome, notably with this middle-distance event:...

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Lot n° 28

Rugby, France - United States-...

Rugby, France - United States- 1920 © Collections L'Équipe October 10, 1920. Rugby is still called rugby-football, the Americans - reigning Olympic champions - sometimes confuse its rules with those of their local football and the captain of the French...

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Lot n° 29

Ceremony of 11-November at Lille...

Ceremony of 11-November at Lille Stadium - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 11 novembre 1920. While in Paris, an unknown soldier is buried under the Arc de Triomphe, Olympique Lille inaugurates a stele in homage to its footballers who died in the war. Sport...

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Lot n° 30

Tour de France, 7th stage Luchon-Perpignan...

Tour de France, 7th stage Luchon-Perpignan - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe July 9, 1920. This farmer from Ariège has just seen a strange team passing by: the head of the bunch of 29 riders that started in Luchon of the 7th stage of the Tour de France:...

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Lot n° 31

Crossing Paris by rowing - 1920...

Crossing Paris by rowing - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 9 May 1920. The Seine is a long river but not at all quiet, and various nautical competitions take advantage of the Paris décor to attract a large public. This rowing crossing, from the Pont d'Austerlitz...

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Lot n° 32

Suzanne Lenglen, the "match of...

Suzanne Lenglen, the "match of the century" © Collections L'Équipe February 16, 1926. The public of great days flocked around the court of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes to witness what the press called "the match of the century": the long-awaited confrontation...

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Lot n° 33

Brugnon, Cochet, Lacoste, Borotra...

Brugnon, Cochet, Lacoste, Borotra - 1927 © Collections L'Équipe October 9, 1927. Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, René Lacoste and Jean Borotra meet on this autumn Sunday in the Bois de Boulogne, on the courts of the Racing Club de France. The Musketeers...

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Lot n° 34

Bjorn Borg, Roland Garros - 1974...

Bjorn Borg, Roland Garros - 1974 © L'Équipe June 1, 1974. In five days, Bjorn Borg will be 18 years old. The Swede hasn't won a Grand Slam tournament yet, but he's bringing a new wind to the game of tennis, like a pop star, and the autograph hunters...

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Lot n° 35

Chris Evert, Roland-Garros - 1975...

Chris Evert, Roland-Garros - 1975 © Serge Philippot/Team June 14, 1975. Chris Evert, 20, wears pastel outfits but, on the court, doesn't go in the shade. That year, the American won Roland Garros for the second time, defeating Martina Navratilova in...

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Lot n° 36

Borg-Connors Final, Wimbledon -...

Borg-Connors Final, Wimbledon - 1978 © The Team July 8, 1978. Everyone is well settled in their roles. Jimmy Connors, the explosive American, facing Bjorn Borg, the imperturbable Swede. Their rivalry begins to spice up world tennis. Little by little,...

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Lot n° 37

Borg - Wimbledon, 1980 © Jean-Marc Pochat/Team July 5, 1980. The relief on Bjorn Borg's face as he won his 5th straight Wimbledon title is commensurate with the fear he felt at losing that 3h53 minute game (1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7, 8-6). John McEnroe's talent...

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Lot n° 38

Borg-McEnroe Final, Wimbledon -...

Borg-McEnroe Final, Wimbledon - 1980 © The Team July 5, 1980. For a tennis match to remain engraved in history and memories, certain conditions must be met that this Wimbledon final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe fulfils all: an infernal suspense...

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Lot n° 39

John McEnroe, Wimbledon - 1981...

John McEnroe, Wimbledon - 1981 © Jean-Marc Pochat/Team 4 July 1981. John McEnroe gets his revenge. Against Bjorn Borg, whom he had made vacillate the previous year. Against the referees, the press, the London public too, who don't appreciate the bad...

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Lot n° 40

Yannick Noah - Davis Cup Final...

Yannick Noah - Davis Cup Final 1982 © L'Équipe 26 novembre 1982. Half a century that France is waiting for its new musketeers! And for the first three hours of the Noah-McEnroe match, which opens the France-US Davis Cup final in Grenoble, she believes...

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Lot n° 41

Yannick Noah, final of Roland-Garros...

Yannick Noah, final of Roland-Garros - 1983 © L'Équipe June 5, 1983. Yannick Noah, by winning Roland-Garros against Sweden's Mats Wilander (6-2, 7-5, 7-6), is part of a prestigious lineage. Marcel Bernard, the last French winner, in 1946, has just awarded...

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Lot n° 42

Yannick Noah, Roland Garros final...

Yannick Noah, Roland Garros final - 1983 © Jean-Marc Pochat/L'Équipe June 5, 1983. "Yann can't lose this, no, no." In "L'Équipe", the day after Yannick Noah's historic victory in the French Open final, Denis Lalanne's article takes place in real time....

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Lot n° 43

Henri Leconte, Wimbledon semifinal...

Henri Leconte, Wimbledon semifinal - 1986 © Philippe Caron/Team July 4, 1986. Henri Leconte celebrates his 23rd birthday on the Wimbledon centre court, but he is not at the party. German Boris Becker, who is not called Boum-Boum for nothing, stunned...

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Lot n° 44

Guy Forget, Henri Leconte, Davis...

Guy Forget, Henri Leconte, Davis Cup final - 1991 © Jean-Claude Pichon/Team November 30, 1991. "L'Équipe" chose this photo to celebrate France's victory over the United States in the Davis Cup final (3-1) in front page. It is not that of the final point...

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Lot n° 45

Pete Sampras, Wimbledon final -...

Pete Sampras, Wimbledon final - 1994 © Nicolas Luttiau/Team July 2, 1994. At 22, Pete Sampras won Wimbledon for the second time by defeating Croatia's Goran Ivanisevic (7-6, 7-6, 6-0), and "The Team" found him "more than perfect". This quiet American...

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Lot n° 46

Serena Williams, Roland-Garros...

Serena Williams, Roland-Garros - 2002 © Jérôme Prévost/L'Équipe June 6, 2002. Serena Williams' headband is not resistant to the explosiveness of her serve. And her opponent of the day in the semifinals, Jennifer Capriati (3-6, 7-6, 6-2), will eventually...

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Lot n° 47

Roger Federer at Wimbledon - 2004...

Roger Federer at Wimbledon - 2004 © Nicolas Luttiau/Team July 2, 2004. Roger Federer, 22, is only at the beginning of his reign. Winner of Wimbledon for the first time the year before, he has further improved his science as head gardener who knows how...

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Lot n° 48

Rafael Nadal, final of Roland...

Rafael Nadal, final of Roland Garros - 2005 © Richard Martin/Team June 5, 2005. This is the beginning of a long and beautiful story. Rafael Nadal has just won Roland Garros by defeating Argentina's Mariano Puerta (6-7, 6-3, 6-1, 7-5). "The team sees...

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Lot n° 49

Nadal-Federer Wimbledon Final -...

Nadal-Federer Wimbledon Final - 2008 © Jérôme Prévost/L'Équipe July 6, 2008. The evening falls on Wimbledon centre court and the Nadal-Federer final is never-ending. At the end of the rain, at the end of the night, the Spaniard expropriates the Swiss...

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Lot n° 50

Novak Djokovic, Masters 1000 Indian...

Novak Djokovic, Masters 1000 Indian Wells - 2012 © Nicolas Luttiau/Team 14 March 2012. Novak Djokovic, 24 years old, n°1 in the world for the last nine months, challenges the authority of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Normal: the Serb knows how to...

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Auction 09 October 2020 A CENTURY OF SPORTS PHOTOS - THE TEAM - Paris

A CENTURY OF SPORTS PHOTOS - THE TEAM

Kylian Mbappé - 2018 World Cup...

Kylian Mbappé - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team July 15, 2018. Kylian Mbappé is 19 years old. Thirteen years ago, he took a license at AS Bondy. Nine years ago, he entered the National Football Institute in Clairefontaine. Three years ago, he made...

Kylian Mbappé, France-Belgium -...

Kylian Mbappé, France-Belgium - World Cup 2018 © Franck Faugère/L'Équipe 10 July 2018. The football planet which has been discovering him for five matches sees Kylian Mbappé racing towards the final. Flashed at 32.4 km/h during the 8th France-Argentina...

Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann,...

Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann, Samuel Umtiti, Raphaël Varane, Olivier Giroud, France-Belgium - 2018 World Cup © Richard Martin/Team July 10, 2018. It was in the 51st minute of the semi-final against Belgium that Samuel Umtiti headed the winning goal....

Paul Pogba, Kylian Mbappé, France-Croatia...

Paul Pogba, Kylian Mbappé, France-Croatia - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team July 15, 2018. In six minutes, Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappé consolidated Les Bleus' lead over Croatia. A left-footed shot from the Mancunien, a right-footed cross for the...

Paul Pogba - 2018 World Cup © Pierre...

Paul Pogba - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team July 15, 2018. Paul Pogba lingers on the lawn of the Loujniki Stadium, which is attached to the World Cup. The rain that falls on Moscow sweeps away tears, the supreme victory erases doubts. In a new,...

Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappé,...

Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappé, France-Argentina - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team June 30, 2018. Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé are having a crazy game against Messi's Argentina. The French duo never stops bouncing the score of this 8th...

Adil Rami, Antoine Griezmann, France-Croatia...

Adil Rami, Antoine Griezmann, France-Croatia - World Cup 2018 © Franck Faugère/Team July 15, 2018. Adil Rami did not play a single minute of the World Cup, but he has his rightful place in Didier Deschamps' line-up. If we see Antoine Griezmann touching...

Kylian Mbappé, Thomas Lemar, Djibril...

Kylian Mbappé, Thomas Lemar, Djibril Sidibé, Blaise Matuidi - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/Team July 15, 2018. That's it, the French team beat Croatia (4-2), they are world champions. Mbappé seems incredulous. Matuidi, replaced, Lemar and Sidibé,...

Hugo Lloris, Uruguay-France - 2018...

Hugo Lloris, Uruguay-France - 2018 World Cup © Franck Faugère/Team July 6, 2018. At the end of his 1.88m, his arm, his glove, Hugo Lloris saves a goal that Uruguayan Martin Caceres' head thought was unstoppable. Like (from left to right) Suarez, Stuani,...

Benjamin Pavard, France-Argentina...

Benjamin Pavard, France-Argentina - 2018 World Cup © Pierre Lahalle/L'Équipe June 30, 2018. The goal that Benjamin Pavard just scored against Argentina in the 57th minute, bringing France back to a 2-2 draw, is one that we never forget. It was a right-footed...

The French World Champion Team...

The French World Champion Team - 2018 World Cup © Franck Faugère/L'Équipe 15 July 2018. In Moscow, the blue world champions are living this "eternal happiness" which will appear on the front page of "L'Équipe" the next day. Photographer Franck Faugère...

Training before the France-Belgium...

Training before the France-Belgium swimming meet, Paris - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 4 août 1920. The French swimming team trains in the La Villette basin, before facing its Belgian counterpart. Inkjet printing on baryta paper. Single posterior print....

Women's football: France-England...

Women's football: France-England - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 31 October 1920. After their tour across the Channel in April, the French footballers (in white) receive the English at the Pershing stadium in front of 10,000 spectators. "Success of curiosity",...

Competition of the French Professionals,...

Competition of the French Professionals, Golf de La Boulie - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe November 1920. The passion for golf has crossed the Channel for about twenty years when these French professionals met in Versailles, on the course of La Boulie....

Pole vaulting, French championships...

Pole vaulting, French championships - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 18 July 1920. On that day, in the Pershing stadium built the previous year in the Bois de Vincennes, the French pole vaulting championship was won at 3.60 m. That's already very high when...

International Cup of Carts - 1920...

International Cup of Carts - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 29 August 1920. On the starting line of the Sarthe circuit, at the wheel of cart n°23, the Frenchman Ernest Friederich is about to complete the perfect race, at an average speed of almost 92 km/h....

France-Belgium Swimming Meeting,...

France-Belgium Swimming Meeting, Paris - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe August 8, 1920. A century before Paris-Plage, the Villette basin in the 19th arrondissement attracted a large audience to watch a match between the best Belgian and French swimmers...

Boxing meeting in Deauville - 1920...

Boxing meeting in Deauville - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 5 September 1920. In a few years, Deauville became the capital of leisure activities. Sea baths, horse racing, casino... No wonder boxing came to set up its rings on the beach. The weather is...

100m - Olympic Games 1920 © Collections...

100m - Olympic Games 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 16 August 1920. Not surprisingly, the best sprinter of the time, Charles Paddock, won the 100m at the Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium, in 10''8. It was the American's technique that was surprising, as...

Gordon-Bennett Cup - 1920 © Collections...

Gordon-Bennett Cup - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe September 28, 1920. The farmers of the Beauce had a front row seat when the Nieuport-Delage, piloted by Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, made the impeccable turn that allowed it to win the Gordon-Bennett Cup. This...

Ernest Cadine - Weightlifting Champion...

Ernest Cadine - Weightlifting Champion 1920 © Collections L'Équipe October 9, 1920. It was a time when strong men shone both in the stadiums and on the stage. Thus Ernest Cadine, who poses here after his Olympic title in Antwerp (the first for French...

100m of the Prix Blanchet - 1920...

100m of the Prix Blanchet - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 13 June 1920. Two months before the Antwerp Olympic Games, the cream of French athletics meets in the heart of the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris, to compete in an inter-club competition. The stars...

Félix Goethals - Col de l'Aubisque,...

Félix Goethals - Col de l'Aubisque, Tour de France 1920 © Collections L'Équipe July 7, 1920. The 6th stage of the 14th Tour de France may lead the peloton from Bayonne to Luchon (326 km) through the Pyrenees, but the race remains the business of the...

Red Star-Olympique de Paris - 1920...

Red Star-Olympique de Paris - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe September 19, 1920. This is the second day of a new championship organised by the "Ligue parisienne de football association". On its Saint-Ouen pitch, the Red Star (striped jersey) was beaten...

Carriage race at the Parc des Princes...

Carriage race at the Parc des Princes - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 19 September 1920. Inaugurated in 1897 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the Parc des Princes is both a stadium and a velodrome that cyclists lend from time to time to motorbikes...

Henri Siret, Tour pédestre de Paris...

Henri Siret, Tour pédestre de Paris - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe September 12, 1920. When he passes this hill, boulevard Lefebvre, Henri Siret (dark jersey) is not far from winning his 7th Tour pédestre de Paris. At the age of 34, he completed in 3...

Track Cycling World Championships...

Track Cycling World Championships - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe August 8, 1920. Before giving way the next day to the Olympic Games, the World Championships took centre stage on the track at the Antwerp velodrome, notably with this middle-distance event:...

Rugby, France - United States-...

Rugby, France - United States- 1920 © Collections L'Équipe October 10, 1920. Rugby is still called rugby-football, the Americans - reigning Olympic champions - sometimes confuse its rules with those of their local football and the captain of the French...

Ceremony of 11-November at Lille...

Ceremony of 11-November at Lille Stadium - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 11 novembre 1920. While in Paris, an unknown soldier is buried under the Arc de Triomphe, Olympique Lille inaugurates a stele in homage to its footballers who died in the war. Sport...

Tour de France, 7th stage Luchon-Perpignan...

Tour de France, 7th stage Luchon-Perpignan - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe July 9, 1920. This farmer from Ariège has just seen a strange team passing by: the head of the bunch of 29 riders that started in Luchon of the 7th stage of the Tour de France:...

Crossing Paris by rowing - 1920...

Crossing Paris by rowing - 1920 © Collections L'Équipe 9 May 1920. The Seine is a long river but not at all quiet, and various nautical competitions take advantage of the Paris décor to attract a large public. This rowing crossing, from the Pont d'Austerlitz...

Suzanne Lenglen, the "match of...

Suzanne Lenglen, the "match of the century" © Collections L'Équipe February 16, 1926. The public of great days flocked around the court of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes to witness what the press called "the match of the century": the long-awaited confrontation...

Brugnon, Cochet, Lacoste, Borotra...

Brugnon, Cochet, Lacoste, Borotra - 1927 © Collections L'Équipe October 9, 1927. Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, René Lacoste and Jean Borotra meet on this autumn Sunday in the Bois de Boulogne, on the courts of the Racing Club de France. The Musketeers...

Bjorn Borg, Roland Garros - 1974...

Bjorn Borg, Roland Garros - 1974 © L'Équipe June 1, 1974. In five days, Bjorn Borg will be 18 years old. The Swede hasn't won a Grand Slam tournament yet, but he's bringing a new wind to the game of tennis, like a pop star, and the autograph hunters...

Chris Evert, Roland-Garros - 1975...

Chris Evert, Roland-Garros - 1975 © Serge Philippot/Team June 14, 1975. Chris Evert, 20, wears pastel outfits but, on the court, doesn't go in the shade. That year, the American won Roland Garros for the second time, defeating Martina Navratilova in...

Borg-Connors Final, Wimbledon -...

Borg-Connors Final, Wimbledon - 1978 © The Team July 8, 1978. Everyone is well settled in their roles. Jimmy Connors, the explosive American, facing Bjorn Borg, the imperturbable Swede. Their rivalry begins to spice up world tennis. Little by little,...

Borg - Wimbledon, 1980 © Jean-Marc...

Borg - Wimbledon, 1980 © Jean-Marc Pochat/Team July 5, 1980. The relief on Bjorn Borg's face as he won his 5th straight Wimbledon title is commensurate with the fear he felt at losing that 3h53 minute game (1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7, 8-6). John McEnroe's talent...

Borg-McEnroe Final, Wimbledon -...

Borg-McEnroe Final, Wimbledon - 1980 © The Team July 5, 1980. For a tennis match to remain engraved in history and memories, certain conditions must be met that this Wimbledon final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe fulfils all: an infernal suspense...

John McEnroe, Wimbledon - 1981...

John McEnroe, Wimbledon - 1981 © Jean-Marc Pochat/Team 4 July 1981. John McEnroe gets his revenge. Against Bjorn Borg, whom he had made vacillate the previous year. Against the referees, the press, the London public too, who don't appreciate the bad...