Florent Manaudou, during the Budapest Worlds, in 2021

Swimming: “The Reality is that the Result does not Make you Happy”, says Florent Manaudou

INTERVIEW: Delayed by a flu at the start of the season, Florent Manaudou is still in good shape. It intends to increase in power until Paris 2024 and the height of luxury, seems to flourish again in the basins. It wasn’t always the case And if Florent Manaudou held his click? In poor shape after the 2021 Olympics which marked his […]

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16-year-old Canadian Summer McIntosh broke the 400m freestyle world record previously held by Australian Ariarne Titmus

Swimming: At 16, Canadian Summer McIntosh Breaks the 400m Freestyle World Record

SWIMMING RECORD: 16-year-old Canadian Summer McIntosh broke the 400m freestyle world record previously held by Australian Ariarne Titmus Canadian Summer McIntosh, 16, broke the 400-meter freestyle world record in Toronto on Tuesday, which was held by Australian Ariarne Titmus during the Canadian selections for the next World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (from July 14 to 30). McIntosh clocked 3’56”08, beating […]

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Léon Marchand smashes three swimming university records

Swimming: French Prodigy Léon Marchand Smashes Three University Records in Three Days in Minneapolis

ROCKET: The reigning two-time world swimming champion is in brilliant form, as evidenced by his triumphs this week at the college championships contested in the United States, with three NCAA records at stake The conquest of America could not be more conclusive for Léon Marchand. The French swimming prodigy, who is studying and training in the United States, […]

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Illustration of a physalia on the Porge beach near Bordeaux in 2011

Brittany: Beaches Closed after the Arrival of the Very Stinging Physalies

ALERT: The town of Plougasnou in Finistère in Brittany has closed beaches and banned swimming Swimming is prohibited and the beaches are closed until further notice in Plougasnou. Well, that shouldn’t offend a lot of people this December. But the municipality of  North Finistère is no joke. Its mayor has just published a decree to prohibit swimming and access to water on […]

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Florent Manaudou announces his return to competion

Swimming: Florent Manaudou Announces his Return to Competition

Florent Manaudou, Olympic champion in the 50m freestyle at the 2012 London Games, announces in L’Equipe his return to the competition after three years of retirement. Florent Manaudou , Olympic champion in the 50m freestyle at the 2012 London Games, announced in the daily L’Equipe his return to the competition after three years devoted to his other passions, […]

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There were people to welcome and congratulate Lauriane Bonnamant on the arrival of her crossing

Crossing the Channel: Lauriane Bonnamant Explains her Achievement

Lauriane Bonnamant is happy, and she can be: she has managed to swim across the English Channel, which she accomplished in exactly 11 hours and 12 minutes. A time to stand on the beach of Audinghen (Pas-de-Calais), both feet well anchored in the sand, and raise the arms in the air to stop the clock, that Lauriane Bonnamant from Cherbourg, went this Tuesday […]

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Lauriane Bonnamant has been training for more than two years to achieve her goal of swimming the Channel

Crossing the Channel: Lauriane Bonnamant Ready for her Challenge

The appointment is set at 5.45am this Tuesday 21st August. Lauriane Bonnamant should try, if the weather still allows, to swim across the Channel  Arrived on Wednesday 15th August in England, Lauriane Bonnamant should start on Tuesday 21st August in a challenge she has been preparing for over two years : to swim across the English Channel. The appointment is made […]

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Clément Kukla from Val d-Oise, made a no-faults winning 5 km, 4 × 1250 m and 10 km.

Val d’Oise: Swimmer of Sarcelles, Clement Kukla, Crowned in Greece

The swimmer of the Association Amicale et Sportive de Sarcelles (Aass) won the 5 km and the relay 4×1 250 m at the Confederation Cup of the Mediterranean. France Junior Champion of 5 km Gravelines and 800m in Rennes, Clement Kukla was an ideal leader for the France team of open water . The swimmer of the Association Amicale et Sportive […]

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Swimming prohibited at Moulin-Blanc beach in Brest

Brest: Swimming is Prohibited at Moulin-Blanc

Following a problem of repression of sewage, swimming is prohibited beach of Moulin-Blanc (first post) in Brest since Thursday, June 28, 2018 and until further notice. The town of Brest decided on Thursday 28th June, 2018 to temporarily prohibit and until further notice th ebathing  beach of Moulin-Blanc (first post). A decision that follows a defect on a sewage discharge […]

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The weekend sports program for the pays de Châteaubriant

Châteaubriant: The Sports Program of the Weekend

Football, futsal, handball, rugby, volleyball, swimming and table football are on the program of the sporting weekend in the Pays de Châteaubriant. FOOTBALL Voltigeurs – Nantes FC B (N3)  : Saturday  24th, 6.30pm,  stade de la Ville en bois of Châteaubriant. Bain-de-Bretagne – Guipry-Messac B (R3)  : Sunday  25th, 3.30pm, stade of the Bais-de-Bretagne Bodais. Erbray – Saint-Hilaire (D1) : […]

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