World Swimming Championships: “It turned into not affordable to accomplish that”, for Marchand the 200m breaststroke will anticipate Paris

He might have liked to. But he changed into unsuccessful and accurately agreed to the instead authoritative opinion of his skilled instruct Bob Bowman. Thursday morning, Léon Marchand will no longer start the 200m breaststroke collection. The double world champion from Fukuoka had first of all made a good begin at the event, however the debate on his participation animated the discussions together with his instructor and his trainer in Toulouse Nicolas Castel, who accompanies him in Fukuoka while Bowman leads the choice American.

It should be said that the undertaking became quite daring. Not to mention volatile. And the rather negative trend. “I actually have a 25% threat of doing it”, calculated Marchand earlier than the tests. On Wednesday, the Frenchman had forty minutes of thrashing among his coronation inside the 200m butterfly and the semi-finals of the 200m medley. In a perfectly timed software, the Toulousain had time to recover, take a touch relaxation and return to the decision room.

Less than 20 minutes among the 2 races…

On Thursday night, the 200m breaststroke semi-finals take region just earlier than the 200m medley final (2:03 p.M. In France) where the swimmer from Tempe, the American town this is domestic to Arizona State University, would don't have anything in opposition to a small world file. Either among 13 and 20 minutes (depending on his 1/2) to make the transfer. “Honestly, the time he had this Wednesday is the minimum to do things proper,” Castel stated.

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Second coronation for Léon Marchand who continues his harvest on the Fukuoka World Championships 🥇

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Despite the preference and the adrenaline of the revel in, the superstar of the Blues isn't pissed off. “It’s the high-quality preference to make, as a minimum this week,” he explains. There is the speech of the coaches, but there also are the feelings. I don’t suppose it was affordable to accomplish that. There is a time when I need to consciousness on what I need to do and I really need this 200m medley. »

“I am learning to progress within the series of races”

But that’s simplest a postponement. Marchand has every purpose of diving the 200m breaststroke on the Paris Games, in particular considering the fact that he also can have big objectives for the distance there too. At the outlet of the remaining French Championships, he even came near the sector document for the 200m Breaststroke (fourth nice overall performance of all time and a slap of more than  seconds at his best time in 2′06′’fifty nine).

In 2024, this system for the Paris Olympics, which is different from that of the Worlds, will allow Marchand to include the 200m breaststroke in his Olympic calendar without this affecting his different specialties. “I am getting to know to development inside the series of races and I will study again this yr”, he breathes. Even if this absolutely guarantees him an insane week at La Défense, Marchand hopes to multiply the possibilities of medals within the Olympic basin.