The French handball and athletics teams now have their outfits for the Olympic competitions. Adidas wanted to build the story of this jersey "around the vibration of Paris", around "its lights and its districts.
" The solar red color is also found on the athletes' shorts. The new material in the Adizero range is intended, depending on the product, to be "between 20 and 40% lighter" than the current textiles of the French teams. "In athletics, this is part of the marginal gains," we estimate at Adidas. The lighter you are, the more likely you are to win that hundredth, that centimeter that can make the difference, the company says. The jersey (or a bra for female athletes who wish) has a horizontal white band, "a band of light," which aims to "unite all the athletes, to give them energy, a collective strength. "The shorts, Rheon technology aims to reduce muscle oscillation, another marginal gain thanks to better thigh support.