VIDEO. Paris 2024 Olympics: he dives into the Olympic pool in multi-colored underwear and becomes the new star of the Games

L’image insolite des Jeux.

Un membre de l’organisation s’est distingué en allant chercher un bonnet de bain au fond de la piscine olympique avec un silp unique. Magique.

The unusual image of the day. A swimming cap appeared at the bottom of the Olympic swimming pool at the Arena La Défense, this Sunday, July 28 after a race. Which caused the races to be stopped, particularly the women's 100m breaststroke.

A member of the audiovisual production went to get this swimming cap with a very beautiful multi-colored swimming trunk and the encouragement of the public. Magnificent. The races were then able to resume.

Léon Marchand superstar

This did not disturb the expected star of the Paris Olympics, Léon Marchand, who ideally started his week on Sunday by racing into the final of the 400 medley, scheduled for the evening, with the best time in the series.

Already noisy the day before, the Arena La Défense turned into a cauldron to cheer the entrance of the 22-year-old from Toulouse, at 11:21 a.m. in lane no. 4, and even to chant each of his breaststrokes, one of his strong points.

“It's hard to describe, it was crazy […] I I expected it, but to actually experience it, pfff, that's something. It's like a football stadium, actually, almost”, Marchand said, flabbergasted.

But the gifted French swimmer, used to the fiery atmosphere of the American university championship, “managed to stay in (his) perf”, with “a very good first 250 m" before slackening slightly.

In 4’ 08&rdquo 30, he beat the British Max Litchfield (4:09.51), the Japanese Daiya Seto (4:10.92) and his runner-up at the World Championships in Fukuoka in 2023 and Budapest in 2022, the American Carson Foster (4:11.07).

The protégé of Bob Bowman, former coach of the icon Michael Phelps, will compete in his final at the start of the night session, at 8:30 p.m., over a distance in which he took 6th place at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.