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    Gobert, Batum climb blocks leaderboard

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    Rudy Gobert blocked Kawamura's shot in overtime

    Two of France's biggest superstars showed why they are great on the global stage. Rudy Gobert and Nicolas Batum both moved up the all-time blocks leaderboard.

    LILLE (France) - Two of France's biggest stars are also defensive stalwarts and both Rudy Gobert and Nicolas Batum moved up on the Olympics' all-time leaderboard in the team's overtime victory over Japan at the 2024 Paris Games.

    Gobert batted away two shots in France's 94-90 overtime win over Japan and jumped to 22 in his third Olympics, pulling ahead of Andres Nocioni of Argentina and China's Yi Jianlian for fourth place.

    Batum, who is playing in his fourth Olympics, swatted two shots as well, giving him 19 blocks for his career. That tied him with Australian legend Andrew Bogut for seventh place.

    Most blocks all-time at the Olympics

    Rank

    Player

    Team

    Blocks

    1

    Pau Gasol

    Spain

    47

    2

    Andrei Kirilenko

    Russia

    35

    3

    Yao Ming

    China

    26

    4

    Rudy Gobert*

    France

    22

    5

    Andres Nocioni

    Argentina

    21

     

    Yi Jianlian

    China

    21

    7

    Nicolas Batum*

    France

    19

     

    Andrew Bogut

    Australia

    19

    9

    Hamed EHaddadi

    Iran

    18

    10

    Luis Scola

    Argentina

    17

     

    Salah Mejri

    Tunisia

    17

    *Active players

    The block was introduced as a statistic for the Olympics in 2000.

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