TITLE: Bad Start

Saitama, Japan, 25th July 2021. Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games . The USA basketball team had gone 17 years without being defeated in the debut match of the Olympic Games. The French team clearly prevailed, the face of Bam Adebayo, one of the most outstanding players, shows impotence and disappointment. Both teams would play again in the final for the Olympic gold, where the USA team prevailed.

AUTHOR: Abel F. Ros (Spain)

I am professional photographer since 1999 based in Cartagena, in the South East of Spain. I have worked in 5 regional newspapers for more than 15 years and I have published in some of the main national newspapers in Spain. I have been a correspondent for the sports newspaper Marca for 20 years, and I collaborate with agencies such as Área11, Alamy and Rex-ShutterStock. I have covered the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona 2018, the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 adn Paris 2024. After a term working as a photographer in an institutional communications team, I'm back to working as a freelancer.