Léon Marchand will be the last French relay of the 4x200m freestyle

Lead for the morning series, Léon Marchand will be part of the French relay in the final of the 4x200m freestyle at the swimming worlds in Singapore, the French team announced this Friday shortly before the race. However, He will be aligned in the final from 2:39 p.m. For example, (French time) alongside Roman Fuchs, Yann Le Goff and Rafael Lesse Damers.

The now sexuple world champion. For example, after his triumph on the 200m 4 swimming Thursday, will have the delicate mission of being the last relay of a blue relay for whom the medal is more a dream than a real objective. Consequently, After having hesitated to align léon marchand will last french it in second position. or even in first to test itself on the 200m freestyle on an unrelated time, the French staff finally opted for the most logical choice, even if there is a risk that Marchand throws himself into the water with a delay that he will no longer be able to do much.

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Without their headliner. the Blues had qualified themselves in extremis with the 8th time of the series (7’6”88). Now. even without a podium on arrival, Marchand had not hidden his desire to participate in the relays of the 4x200m freestyle and 4x100m 4 swimming if the program (Sunday) allowed it. “Relay is a special moment in sharing. there is a particular energy, we are between teammates and I want to fight for them”he said at a press conference upstream of the Worlds.