Tag: Amaury Leveaux
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Kyle Chalmers (AUS) 44.84 and New 100 Free SCM World Record
A special day for 🇦🇺 Kyle Chalmers who broke the men’s short course 100 meters freestyle world record after 13 years! The now former world record was Amaury Leveaux’s 44.94 from the 2008 LEN Europan Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia.
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Fred Vergnoux, 5x Olympic Swim Coach | Inside With Brett Hawke
Fred Vergnoux is the new technical director of CN Metropole de Las Palmas of Gran Canaria. He is leaving his head coaching position at the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN). For the last 11 years, he has coached Mireia Belmonte, winner of the Women’s 200 Fly at the Rio Olympics, among others. Some of his…
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All Men’s Olympic 50m Freestyle Swimming Finals 1988-2016 | Top Moments
This week’s Top Moments video features all Men’s 50m Freestyle Swimming Finals since the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul. Enjoy watching!
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Top 10 Fastest Ever Men’s 50m Freestyle at the Olympics | Top Moments
Check out the Fastest Men’s 50m Freestyle Swimming Races in Olympic history! Do we forgot someone? Let us know in the comments!
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USA vs France: The most epic Swim Relay Finish – Beijing 2008
Led by anchor Jason Lezak, the USA 4x100m free relay team, including Michael Phelps, swam one the greatest come-from-behind races in history of the Olympic Games against the French team. Frédéric Bousquet and Alain Bernard tell us more about their experience from the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing.
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French Swimming Federation official refutes Amaury Leveaux’s claim
A French Swimming Federation official denied the French swim team used cocaine, a claim made by Olympic champion Amaury Leveaux in an autobiography. Lucien Gastaldello, the federation’s honorary vice president, said he was often head of a French swimming delegation that celebrated titles with champagne, but not cocaine, according to French media citing a Republican Lorrain report. Leveaux, a…
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Amaury Leveaux: ‘We used drugs at the London Olympics’
On April 22, former swimmer Amaury Leveaux publishes an explosive autobiography titled “Sex, drugs and swimming”, depicting a vitriolic portrait of the French swim team between lines of cocaine and unbridled sex. ‘Some of us didn’t frown upon a line from time to time, while it for others was not a line, but a highway…
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Olympic gold medalist Amaury Leveaux announces retirement
Read for instance Malaysia Sun French Olympic gold medallist swimmer Amaury Leveaux Monday announced his retirement after achieving his “career goals”. “I have all the medals I need and done everything I want to in swimming,” said Leveaux who celebrated his 28th birthday last Monday.
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CC photo #518: Resetting his head at Istanbul 2009
A scene from the LEN 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Not 100% sure who this is, but maybe Amaury Leveaux.