Florent Manaudou won bronze in the 50m free at the Paris Olympics, marking the 4th Olympics in a row that Manaudou had medaled in the event. Before the final, Manaudou took a page from the track athletes’ book and started a slow clap, which the entire crowd joined in. After the fact, many who were in the final remembered how surreal and exciting it made the race itself.
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Is there a link to the slow clap? On YouTube I can only see the actual race. All the videos posted are about 1 minute long (whereas for other races they show a lot more, including all the swimmers’ entries and reactions after the race.)
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFa2Gtow/
There you go
Thanks too to the ISL
That is what we need more I feel in the US, the inclusion of the crowd in your journey and celebration. Super cool moment here Flo.
What happened to the French 4/100 Free Relay. Didnt get out of the heat.
Not enough depth in the 100free for the french team after Rio
They would have needed at least one leg from Grousset, Manaudou or Marchand to reach finals and then even with all three of them they would have had a really tough time reaching the podium
Who wouldnt want to slow clap with him 😍
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This is great stuff. I’m glad he was able to medal, because if he finished like 4th and people blamed the slow clap for his failing to medal, that’d probably have set swimming back…