No, in life, it is not only Léon Marchand to make the French mad with swimming with joy. At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Maxime Grousset had gone almost unnoticed – he had won no individual medal – but the Singapore world championships replace him in a fairly spectacular way as the second central character in French swimming, almost up to “King Leon”.
At the beginning of the week, “Max ‘” launched the blue locomotive and won the title on 50 m butterfly, its second world coronation after the 100 m butterfly in Fukuoka (Japan), in 2023. The third did not drag, only five days between the two, and this new final of the 100 m butterfly won with the record of France and Europe (49 s 62), Saturday, August 2, in front of his friend, (2ᵉ, 49 s 83), and the Canadian Ilya Kharun (3ᵉ, 50 s 07).
Second best performer in history on the distance, Maxime Grousset is the first French to pass under the 50 seconds over 100 m butterfly. “What did I do?” Dinguerie! »»he savor, his ecstatic gaze after his race. “He imposed his pace on the others from the start of the race, he had already won. He did a boss race ”hot analysis Denis Auguin, national technical director of the French Swimming Federation.
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