2024 MARE NOSTRUM – CANET-EN-ROUSSILLON
- Saturday, May 25th & Sunday, May 26th
- Prelims at 9am local (3am ET)/Finals at 5:30pm local (11:30am ET)
- Canet, France
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- Olympic Qualifying Event
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Maxime Grousset swam his last competition before the 2024 French Olympic Trials at the Canet-en-Roussillon stop of the Mare Nostrum Tour this weekend. Grousset swept the sprint freestyle events, clocking winning times of 21.92 and 48.71 in the 50 and 100 while also placing 2nd in the 100 fly in 51.92. Grousset is feeling good about qualifying for Paris and looking ahead, thinks his home Olympics will be the best meet of his life.
The problem is that, going by the momentum in his events, there will be others who will have the best competition of their lives
The 100 fly I’ve said before is for me my most anticipated race of Paris women’s side too will be great but this will be so legendary if each guy shows up ready for war . When I swam back I. The day I could been a contender now I was a 50 flat …. In yards .
Always love when the French speak English 🙂 Haven’t heard Maxime speak English much, but he did a good job!
Who will swim freestyle in the medley if grousset covers the butterfly?
Maybe Florent
I’d be interested to see a breakdown of the different scenarios for the french medley relay, with Marchand in fly/breast, Grousset in fly/free etc
Manaudou’s 100free has always been a bit tricky but maybe he’ll once again be able to show up for the Olympics ?
That’s a tough spot to fill
It all boils down to the fly leg. If Clement Secchi continues to improve (he swam a 51.3 100 fly in Eindhoven last month), Grousset will swim free and France has a real shot at a medal in the medley relay.
Ndoye-Brouard or Tomac/Marchand/Secchi/Grousset
I love my French honey bunches Manaudou but he’s simply not in pre 2016 form when it comes to 100 free
That being said, he could still throw down a 46 split because he’s HIM
Salvan will do the free duties on paris, Maxime is the second fastest fly split holder..that advantage is huge than the free
I hope he wins the 100 free. It would be a fairy tale ending for France after 100 years wait to be host nation again. Incidentally the last host nation to win either of the two blue ribbon events is US (100 free Rowdy Gaines 100 sprint Carl Lewis both at LA84).
Talking about Paris, he says exactly “that he is in a big hurry and can’t wait”
I peg Grousset to medal in 100 fly, make 100 free final. Anything can happen in the final.
Yep, pegging him too
49.2 fly split and seems to always be a medal threat in 100 free/fly. He’ll be there in Paris and finally get recognized more if the French put together a good medley