Former Olympic Freestyle Champion Florent Manaudou Doing Tokyo Exhausting Yards | Swimming Information

French swimmer Florent Manaudou will rack up the quantity of races he competes as he objectives a medal within the 50m freestyle on the Tokyo Olympics. Within the two months ahead of the Video games, the 2012 Olympic champion is scheduled to race 12 competitions to fine-tune his hopes. The 6ft 6in (1.99m) more youthful brother of iconic swim champion Laure Manaudou, gained silver at Rio in 2016 after which took an extended destroy from the game. Now 30, Manaudou will have already certified for Tokyo however will use the continued Ecu Championships, the impending French nationals and the Monaco and Canet-en-Roussillon conferences to construct in opposition to his Olympic objective.

“I want to in finding the outdated spontaneity, and want to race ahead of the Video games,” stated the four-time international champion.

The swimmer’s trainer Arnaud Rondan used to be additionally satisfied of the desire for festival.

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“In coaching you’ll be able to fine-tune your methodology and you’ll be able to do bodily preparation, a wide variety of stuff. However simplest in precise racing are you able to get that computerized reactivity,” he stated.

For now, Manaudou is simplest the fourth-fastest performer of the 12 months at 21.72 with Russia’s Vladimir Morozov on 21.41sec, and Britain’s Benjamin Proud on 21.42sec, the 2 highest performers.