SP: That’s an easy one for me.
This Olympics is in France. It’s at a $200m aquatics centre. They are going to expect a new hero and it will be Leon Marchand in that 200m individual medley.
A lot of people won’t have been watching the American Collegiate Championships but Marchand has been tearing it up. He is rewriting the record books. His father was a swimmer. His mother was an international swimmer as well.
If there was a breeding programme for the perfect French swimmer you would pick that.
KP: Marchand will be swimming other events as well – the 200m butterfly, 400m medley and could even do the 200m breaststroke.
I can’t get away from that. The noise in that arena when a French swimmer touches the wall first, it’s given me goosebumps just thinking about it.
