Léon Marchand, a start without forcing the swimming worlds

Léon Marchand came to the OCBC Arena de Singapore, he took his bearings and he defeated his adversaries without spending superfluous energy in the 200m 4 swimming series. Meanwhile, “I was a little impatient anyway”he said immediately out of the water. Moreover, “This is the first time that I have started a competition on the fourth day. Therefore, so see Maxime (GROUSSET) win a gold medal (on the 50m butterfly) duty Yohann (Ndoye-Brouard) take bronze (on the 100m back) it was excellent and it gave me hungry suddenly. Moreover, This explains why I was so impatient to dive into this basin. Meanwhile, ”

Long awaited léon marchand, start without forcing for his first outing at these world championships. Consequently, which happens to be his first major international competition since his Parisian triumph last summer, the quadruple Olympic champion did not try to knock out competition, as shown in his last 50 meters in crawl traveled on a very quiet tempo for him. But the Frenchman had already done the hardest on the first 100 meters and the tandem butterfly-dos which he perfectly negotiated. Even if, he, a perfectionist, found to complain about it.

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“It was good, especially since I did not have too many bearings. I swam well, I think I rather respected what I wanted to do. After there are a few technical details that I will see with my coach. but that I can improve for tonight (in the semi-finals). I went fairly quickly in butterfly, that’s good. In the back, the same, it was léon marchand, start without forcing not bad, even if I move my head a little too much. So I have to be more stable and finish faster. ”

In 1’57”63. the Toulousain finished at the top of the time sheet in front of the Japanese Kosuke Makino (1’57”74) and the American Shane Casas (1’57”76). A time that Léon Marchand intends to bring down from the semi-finals (2:40 p.m. French time this Wednesday), as he himself said while evoking the rest. “I will try to approach my best time. I want to go faster than usual, and see what it can give. Afterwards, the final is tomorrow (Thursday), so it shouldn’t be that I give all evening. ”

Approaching his best time. so that means approaching his time in the final of the last games, when he won in 1’54”06. Only six hundredths of the Ryan Lochte world record, which the Frenchman openly says léon marchand, start without forcing he wants to beat in Singapore. As he had done this winter, but only in a small basin during a World Cup stage. “I can’t wait to be here evening”he concluded, with a malicious smile. And with undoubtedly an idea behind the head.