This Saturday, August 3, Maxime Grousset finished 5th in the men’s 100m butterfly final in the pool of Paris La Defense Arena.
This is Hungarian Christophe Milak who was crowned in front of two Canadians: Josh Liendo et Ilya Kharun. After silver in the 200m butterfly, behind Leon Marchand, Sweetie wins his first gold medal of the I of Paris 2024. HAS Tokyo 2020the 24-year-old swimmer took silver behind the American Caeleb Dressel.
On the side of Greatreigning world champion in the 100m butterfly, the disappointment was immense.
“I can’t really say what happened,” he toldOlympics.com. “It’s sport, sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes you’re there, sometimes you’re not. I thought I was, but apparently I wasn’t.”
He had set the first time in the semi-finals with 50.41 s. Third in the final, Kharunformer partner of Leon Marchand at Arizona States, swam 50.45 seconds for bronze.
“Even if I did the same time as in the semi-finals, it didn’t make the podium. I had to do better, I tried and I didn’t succeed.”
An opportunity for a 7th French swimming medal that flew away in the blink of an eye, but it may only be postponed. Because Anastasia Kirpichnikova will compete in the 800m freestyle final at 9:28 p.m. after his silver medal in the longer distance and his French compatriots will also try to get on the podium in the 4x100m mixed medley relay, notably Leon Marchand at 9:58 p.m.
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