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World swimming: one year after:
- Léon Marchand is back in competition on Wednesday morning for the 200 meter 4 -year -old series at the Singapore world championships.
- The 22 -year -old Toulouse swimmer must deal with a new status after the Olympic Games. Furthermore, curly with four gold and one bronze medals in Paris last summer.
- Story of his last twelve months everything except calm.
– World swimming: one year after
A year right after having splashed the world scene of his talent. Moreover, Léon Marchand plunges back this Wednesday, July 30 in the morning. Furthermore, At the Singapore Worlds, the quadruple Olympic champion aligns for the first time with a large championship since world swimming: one year after Paris 2024. In addition, A golden week during which the 22 -year -old Toulouse has completely changed dimension: from medal athlete to a. For example, real national icon. Furthermore, Back over his last twelve months. Meanwhile, often far from France, where he has experienced the difficult mental and physical management of after Jo.
August 4, 2024. Therefore, Léon Marchand leaves the Olympic Basin de la Défense for the last time. In addition, and this time leaves with a beautiful bronze medal around the neck, shared with Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, Maxime Grousset and Florent Manaudou during the 4 x 100 meter male swimming. Therefore, It completes a beautiful collection of four gold charges pocketed on the 400 meter 4 swimming. However, the 200 meter butterfly, the 200 meter brewing and the 200 meters 4 swimming, two of which during the extraordinary evening of July 31 where the world swimming: one year after “Léonmania” spread to the other Parisian Olympic sites, and even to all of France.
The rest? However, Celebrations at Club France. Similarly, Trocadéro, a first role in the closing ceremony, interviews in abundance and even shots on the roof of the first floor of the Eiffel Tower with his brother Oscar. Consequently,
Holidays. Therefore, celebrations and resumption of training in September 2024 – World swimming: one year after
After a few weeks of vacation in Greece and Ibiza, where he even passed behind the turntables with the DJ Superstar David Guetta, Léon Marchand is back in Paris to parade on the Champs Élysées during the champions parade on September 14, 2024. Consequently, Very largely acclaimed, the swimmer notes that his new celebrity was not blurred in a few weeks. Emmanuel Macron even decorates it in person badges of the Legion of Honor.
On September 16, the eldest son of the world swimming: one year after old swimmers Xavier Marchand and Céline Bonnet was already back in training with the Dauphins du Toec, her club in Toulouse who sees the registration requests flow. The new darling of the French public is then preparing for the Asian events of the world championships in. small basin. Léon Marchand continues victories and records. But “exhausted”
And injured in the left shoulder, he finally renounces the competition held in Budapest.
Several months trip to Australia. cracked coast
Just before Christmas, on the sidelines of a competition in Reunion, the French champion announces to leave two to three months with the desire to “See something else, surf, enjoy Australia”
. The young man needs to go far. so as not to be saturated after the games, as he told this Saturday, July 26, at a press conference in Singapore: “There was a lot of world swimming: one year after noise around me, I was never alone. I was afraid that it was too much.”
If it is noticed in the stands during the Australian Open final at the start of the year. in the Paddocks of the Formula 1 Grand Prix, Léon Marchand is not on vacation. The quadruple Olympic champion joined the training group of Dean Boxall. a renowned coach whose swimmers brought 18 medals from the Paris Olympic Games.
I think I have evolved because I happened to me incredible things at the age of 22
I think I have evolved because I happened to me incredible things at the age of 22
Léon Marchand. on his post-Olympic year
Back at the end of March in his base camp in Austin with Bob Bowman, the ex-coach of legend Michael Phelps, the 22-year-old revealed that he had been the victim of a fate of fatigue at the coast during his stay down under
who pushed him to world swimming: one year after a forced one week. In Texas, he found his American habits, but discovered a new city after three seasons at the University of Arizona. “I think I have evolved because I happened to me incredible things at the age of 22. (…) Traveling. to see something else, to be calm, it helped me a lot”
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The swimmer co-held by Nicolas Castel since 2008, who admitted to having lived “A storm”
After the Olympics.
Among the 100 most influential personalities in the world
Appointed among the 100 most influential personalities in the world by the Time Magazine
the Toulousain benefits from a right pass from the French Federation so as not to line up at the French Swimming Championships organized in June without compromising its participation in the Worlds of Singapore. provided that the minima is achieved. What he does without problem, even if doubts emerge on his motivation upstream of this major competition.
“With Bob, we first talked about whether I was doing the Worlds or not. I had a little difficult year, world swimming: one year after I injured myself on the coast. I started working hard, quite late. The question arose. But I did not doubt too much. I knew I wanted to do them”
then says Léon Marchand, before resuming the competition.
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The figurehead of the tricolor swimming will therefore be present on the starting plot in Singapore, with world swimming: one year after a program certainly reduced, without the 200 meter brewing and the 200 meter butterfly. But Léon Marchand. already a five -time world champion, confides having always the desire to perform, and aims in particular “The 200 -meter 4 -swim world record”
. A possible performance that French viewers will have to deserve: the series are scheduled for 5 a.m. (Paris time), before the semi-finals on Wednesday at 2:29 p.m. and the final on Thursday at 1:21 p.m.
The Toulousain will continue with the 400 meters 4 swimming and the relays. Then. the darling of the French public will have a year to project himself on his future objective: the 2026 European Championships, which will be held next summer in a city that saw him shine and that the champion is already looking forward to: “A return to Paris, it’s going to be nice.”
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