President Emmanuel Macron had set the bar high by calling for 50 to 60 French medals at the Paris Olympics and Les Bleus duly delivered, reeling in the country's biggest medal haul since 1900, as the Games came to an end on Sunday.
The French women's basketball team delivered the delegation's 64th medal when they took silver after their final defeat against the US, the highest number since the 1900 Games – also held in Paris – when fewer nations competed, and some events were only contested by French athletes.
