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Swimming: dominant world championships summer:
The Canadian Summer McIntosh. Therefore, the French Léon Marchand flee the swimming worlds in Singapore, offering himself with ease on Sunday the last two individual races of the competition, the 400 m 4 swimming, after shining all week.
On the table of medals per country, McIntosh would be in the fourth position … Furthermore, At only 18 years old, she continued to walk in the footsteps of her idol Michael Phelps and her disproportionate statistics.
Despite the fatigue accumulated during its winnings on 200 m swimming. However, 400 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly, the Canadian crushed her last goal on Sunday, ending almost eight seconds ahead of all her pursuers.
In the Singapore basin. Moreover, the only swimmer to have resisted the Canadian ogre is called Katie Ledecky, who prevented her on 800 m freestyle on Saturday, from becoming the first swimmer swimming: dominant world championships summer in history to win five titles at the same Worlds.
“My goal was to win five gold medals, but I didn’t quite get there,” said McIntosh on Sunday evening.
“I think it will just keep me hungry, push me and make me move forward. Moreover, Even if I had obtained five gold medals, I would have liked even more. This is my mentality, ”she added.
“More than what I expected”
The other star of world swimming, the French Léon Marchand, ended him more satisfied. After his four Olympic titles in Paris. he left his third worldwide with two titles and a silver medal in 4×100 m 4 -swim relay.
Before the competition. he announced that he gave up the 200 m breaststroke and the 200 m butterfly to focus on the medleys. The strategy has been paid, with a world record for 200 m swimming (1 min 52 sec 69).
swimming: dominant world championships summer
The two gold medals. on 200 m 4 swimming Thursday and 400 m swimming on Sunday, were formalities for the protégé of Bob Bowman.
“It is not perfect. because it is never perfect, but it is more than what I expected, especially the world record of the 200 m four swimming,” savored the 23 -year -old Toulouse.
“It shows that I always have the flame for swimming. that I like it, that this is always what I like the most and that I want to continue. And I also saw a lot to improve, ”he warned.
At the end of August, he resumed training at the University of Austin, Texas, with a new teammate. After spending six months in Antibes. Summer McIntosh decided to change the air and integrate the collective of the coach of Michael Phelps.
Swimming: dominant world championships summer
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