2024-08-02 18:37:51
A week after carrying the French flag during the opening ceremony and for his fourth Olympic Games, Florent Manaudou won his fifth Olympic medal by winning bronze in the 50m freestyle final.
Published on: 02/08/2024 – 20:37Edited: 02/08/2024 – 21:28
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At the age of 33, for his fourth Olympics, Florent Manaudou shone once again by winning his fifth Olympic medal on Friday August 2. He finished in third place (21 seconds 56 seconds) in his favorite field of 50 m freestyle, after Australian Cameron McEvoy, world champion of the distance in 2023 who won in 21 seconds 25 ahead of Briton Ben Proud (21 sec 30) .
Defending champion, Caeleb Dressel, eight-time Olympic champion from Saturday and his gold medal with the American 4x100m relay, finished 6th.
Another Frenchman who has entered this distance, Maxime Grousset, has left in the end to devote himself to the 100m butterfly, the two events are not compatible.
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After a good start in the series, Manaudou only secured his place in the final with the 8th time, but he appeared very confident before the final in the Arena a victory very much to his cause. After the race, you enjoy your pleasure with the people for a long time, it takes time to make a respectable level.
In the shadow of his sister Laure, the eternal muse of French swimming, he made a name for himself by becoming, to everyone’s surprise, the Olympic champion in the 50m freestyle in London in 2012, at the age of 21, and a year later . The first option is Blue.
Four years later, the Rio Olympics did not laugh at him as he had hoped: he had to settle for silver in the 50m freestyle, which was a great favorite, and won a medal of the same metal with the 4×100 m. this.
Overcome by the daily wear and tear of a top swimmer, he decided to leave the pools to take up handball with Aix-en-Provence. Before launching a crazy challenge in the spring of 2019: diving back in, fifteen months before the 2020 Olympics, finally postponed for a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the crazy idea to win an Olympic medal .
And you succeed in this amazing bet! Nine years after his stunning Olympic comeback, Manaudou won silver at the Tokyo Games, less than two and a half years after his return to swimming.
Having become the history of his sport, he also had the honor of being the first Olympic flame in France when it arrived on June 8 in Marseille, then the flag of the French delegation during the opening ceremony.
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