Going for gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics, hosts France meet neighbours Spain in today’s football final at Parc des Princes.
After both nations saw off North African opponents to reach the decider, they now battle it out to stand on the podium’s top step for just a second time in their history.
Following a fiery quarter-final win over Argentina, only one game separated France from a place in the Olympic final, as Thierry Henry’s team attempt to win their country’s first football gold since 1984.
However, it took two Jean-Philippe Mateta strikes to spur a fight-back and beat 10-man Egypt in Lyon, after Les Bleus came perilously close to missing out and being forced into a playoff for bronze.
Mateta’s late leveller from a Michael Olise pass was not the first time the erstwhile Crystal Palace teammates had linked up this summer, and the big striker then headed the hosts in front nine minutes into extra time.
Olise later sealed the deal with a goal of his own, guaranteeing France a first football medal in 40 years, but highly-driven boss Henry now wants to claim one of the few prizes missing from his glittering CV.
The former World and European champion saw his side win all of their group matches at these Games, while scoring seven goals and keeping three clean sheets, and they have conceded only a single goal so far.