The future, and now the present, of French swimming has a name: Léon Marchand.
Certainly, Florent Manaudou remains a magnificent gondola head.
But at 31, Laure's little brother has no other horizon than Paris 2024. The Olympic Games during which Léon Marchand intends to take on another dimension.
Olympic this one.
An ambition that the 20-year-old young man now assumes with a smile that never leaves him, he who confided last Saturday, after winning the first world title of his career in the 400m medley final in Budapest: "
I think that now
I can call myself a good
swimmer
.”
What could be more normal after having almost erased the world record of a certain Michael Phelps, the American legend of the basins from the top of his 28 Olympic medals, including 23 gold.
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I do not want to be compared to Phelps all the time.
I am very, very...
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