Marchand 'stressed' about racing Japanese rivals at LA Olympics
Marchand said he is worried by rising Japanese swimmers after Matsushita won Asian Games gold and Ohashi was tipped to challenge world records.
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Léon Marchand, quadruple Olympic champion in Paris in 2024, said Tuesday, September 22nd in the margins of the Asian Games in Japan, fear the young Japanese swimmers he would have to face at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.
Marchand 'stressed' about racing Japanese rivals at LA Olympics
Marchand ruled the pool with four individual golds at his home Paris Olympics in 2024 and he remains the man to beat heading towards the Games in two years' time. Marchand is attending the Asian Games in Japan, where he has had a first-hand look at swimmers including Shin Ohashi and Tomoyuki Matsushita. Marchand is likely to lock horns with both in LA and the Frenchman said he was "really excited to race them". "I always look at what they do dur…
Present in Japan, where he runs a children's internship on the sidelines of the Asian Games, Leon Marchand said he feared two very young Japanese swimmers that he would have to face at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028: Shin Ohashi and Tomoyuki Matsushita.
Tokyo: Japan's 17-year-old Yumeki Kojima, after winning a gold medal at the Asian Games on Tuesday, expressed his determination to close the gap with French superstar Léon Marchand by the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Marchand said in Tokyo that Japanese swimmers are his biggest rivals when he aims for gold in Los Angeles, admitting that racing them is "scary" and "stressful." Watched by French swimmers, Kojima won the 400m individual medley in an …
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