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The Paris Olympics at the halfway mark have brought the world “The Pommel Horse Guy,” a rugby star and social media sensation who wants to be on on reality show “Love Island” and “The Real John Wick” in the form of a 51-year-old Turkish shooter.
Léon Marchand completed his dominating run through the Paris Olympics, capturing his fourth swimming gold with another runaway victory in the 200-meter individual medley Friday night.
Turns out, those comparisons to Michael Phelps weren’t farfetched at all when it comes to Léon Marchand.
French phenom Léon Marchand swam four races Tuesday and had a pair of night semifinals separated by less than 90 minutes.
Bob Bowman knows dominance, but even he couldn't quite believe what he witnessed with his latest Olympic pupil pulling off a dominant victory in the 400-meter individual medley.
With a flag-waving crowd cheering his every stroke, Léon Marchand delivered a swimming gold for France with a dominating victory in the men’s 400-meter individual medley.
With a boisterous crowd cheering him on, Léon Marchand began his home Olympics by cruising to the fastest time in the preliminaries of the 400-meter individual medley.
Summer McIntosh, the 16-year-old Canadian who promises to be a star at next year’s Paris Olympics, has won her second gold medal of the World Aquatics Championships.
Australian Ariarne Titmus has set a new world record on the way to a decisive victory in the women’s 400-meter freestyle on the opening day of the world swimming championships, with silver for American Katie Ledecky and bronze for Erika Fairweather of New Zealand.
American freestyler Katie Ledecky has almost never gone home with anything other than a gold or silver medal in the Olympics or world championships dating from the 2012 London Games.
