Swimming-Marchand marches on for fourth gold in Paris pool

Top Stories
Most Popular

Panorama

Aircraft is grounded after over 130 hamsters in the hold manage to escape their cages

Denmark’s Victoria Kjær Theilvig wins Miss Universe 2024

DSF unveils a spectacular preview of its biggest-ever 30th edition with Dubai’s first-ever indoor drone show

30th Dubai Shopping Festival to kick off in December

Melania Trump declines to meet with Jill Biden at White House

Dana Reserve: Where Three Ecosystems Meet in Jordan's Wilderness

Japan launches world's first wooden satellite into space

Astronomers observe black hole that may have formed gently

The ten deadliest weather events of the last 20 years and how they were fuelled by climate change

What is the story of the Jordan Staircase in one of the most important palaces in Russia?

Home Sport Swimming-Marchand marches on for fourth gold in Paris pool 04-08-2024 12:43 PM Ammon News - Leon Marchand fulfilled what French fans may regard as destiny as he swept to a fourth gold medal at his home Paris Games with another dominant victory in the men's 200 metres Individual Medley on Friday. Roared on by a delirious crowd at La Defense Arena, Marchand took down Michael Phelps's Olympic record from Beijing 2008 with a blistering swim of one minute 54.06 seconds, 0.06 seconds short of Ryan Lochte's world record. "It was my last individual final so I said to myself, I really have to enjoy it," Marchand told reporters. "I had a lot more energy than yesterday so I felt better, more relaxed. "And I really wanted to have fun in my last final and it happened, so it was huge." Reuters

Home Sport

Swimming-Marchand marches on for fourth gold in Paris pool

04-08-2024 12:43 PM

Ammon News - Leon Marchand fulfilled what French fans may regard as destiny as he swept to a fourth gold medal at his home Paris Games with another dominant victory in the men's 200 metres Individual Medley on Friday.

Roared on by a delirious crowd at La Defense Arena, Marchand took down Michael Phelps's Olympic record from Beijing 2008 with a blistering swim of one minute 54.06 seconds, 0.06 seconds short of Ryan Lochte's world record.

"It was my last individual final so I said to myself, I really have to enjoy it," Marchand told reporters.

"I had a lot more energy than yesterday so I felt better, more relaxed.

"And I really wanted to have fun in my last final and it happened, so it was huge."

Reuters

no comments

Notice

All comments are reviewed and posted only if approved.
Ammon News reserves the right to delete any comment at any time, and for any reason, and will not publish any comment containing offense or deviating from the subject at hand, or to include the names of any personalities or to stir up sectarian, sectarian or racial strife, hoping to adhere to a high level of the comments as they express The extent of the progress and culture of Ammon News' visitors, noting that the comments are expressed only by the owners.

name : *
email
	show email
comment : *
Verification code :	Refresh write code :