Some time on Monday night, his head doubtless heavy with sorrow, Antoine Griezmann returned to Madrid. He had stayed away as long as possible, but he was due for his first training session with Atlético Madrid on Tuesday morning. The European soccer season, long and arduous, hangs on the horizon. Summer, for him, had ended. It was time to return to work.

Quite where his priorities lie, though, became clear within just a few hours. “Bravo Clarisse,” he wrote on X, in honor of the French judoka Clarisse Agbegnenou, who had just claimed a bronze medal in Paris. She had celebrated her medal with her infant daughter. “The gold medal is in your arms,” Griezmann added.

Griezmann was not going to let the small matter of distance — or having to go through the grueling preseason training of his coach, Diego Simeone — prevent him from either watching the Olympics or proclaiming each French success to the world.

Over the next few days, Griezmann, 33, would relish a gold in triathlon, a silver in swimming and a bronze in BMX, all with the same unrestrained glee. He was so overcome by the success of the swimmer Léon Marchand that he just posted several siren emojis, assuming (correctly) that everyone in France would know what he was talking about.

Griezmann’s “Alertes Medailles” — always capitalized — have become such a feature of these Olympics that X has bestowed upon them their own hashtag: an image of Griezmann in a straw hat, borrowed from a selfie he had taken while attending the Games.