Olympic swimmer Léon Marchand on winning gold at home in France

[@Anonyguy12]

What a wonderful personality - so humble, poised, and calm. Love him !

[@KingS-m6t]

He needs to stop doping; it is unbelievable. He must have taken doping, just like the American team.

[@simonbloch1497]

And he also speaks English very well this Guy is just amazing

[@verdiernoyama9681]

He studies in the US

[@ragas2845]

Thank you guys! -Meon Larchand

[@NRClips3414]

Bro has lived in the US for a while 😭

[@MDkid1]

I was just thinking the same, didn't expect that.

[@tarzan12345]

He studied and trained at Arizona state university and will be moving to the university of texas next year with his coach.

[@RachelZiyys]

I like the fact that Marchand went into the interview without showing off his medals making him a very humble and genuine man.

[@Cousinouf]

it's usually the media themselves that request the athletes to wear the medal

[@Wowowowowowowowowowowowow]

Also they are really heavy, definitely not comfortable to wear 4 or 5 of them. Only time they would do is for a photoshoot or if requested.

[@ABCurry30]

US media interviewing a French athlete. Go figure.

[@Testeut]

imagine coming to an interview wearing 5 medals, you would look ridiculous

[@sv-bd5em]

Or like… he just put them away? Or some else held onto them? Don’t exaggerate

[@caroladams8237]

Congratulations Leon! Well done! Great interview. All the best for the future.

[@Kiev-in-3-days]

Best Olympics ever! ❤🗼🇺🇲🇫🇷

[@Kat-zj5kd]

leon is beloved champion of the world, fresh french face of swimming - he is wow.Phelps cheering him on is so cute - another beloved star of the whole world

[@guyinsf]

Totally! Michael Phelps has been so supportive of Leon and that's a beautiful thing to see. Both amazing athletes and Phelps's sportsmanship is very exemplary!

[@sunshine09944]

I love that we are seeing non US athletes being interviewed

[@clio2rsminicup]

5 medals as a reminder, 4 Gold so 4 times Olympic Champion and 1 bronze, he is simply the most successful Athlete of the Olympics PARIS 2024 (there is a Chinese who has 6 medals but none in Gold, 1 Silver and 5 Bronze, so 0 times Olympic Champion, it counts much less) ! An Olympics where he beats 4 Olympic records held by Phelps, and he is the first swimmer in the entire history of the Olympic Games to win 2 individual Olympic titles in the same day, even Phelps did not do that. That is perhaps why he is invited to this US-NY show hu, ^^ even if he is a foreign medalist. But hey, a medalist from the host country of the Olympics and also training most often in Team Bob Bowman, therefore in the USA for 3 years, that also helps here. ^^

[@tarzan12345]

He’s a familiar face, at least for people who follow swimming in the US though. He studies and trains in the US.

[@danielzhang1916]

@@clio2rsminicup woah, no need to brag about it, it's just nice seeing the interview

[@wanchunhu3994]

The first france athletes being interviewed in US today show😊

[@clio2rsminicup]

@@danielzhang1916 LOL In this case the message I'm replying to (because I'm only replying to it) is also totally useless.

[@toshiyukisuzuki7610]

Gracious, humble, thankful... champ to the core

[@d.g.1594]

He grew up into a fine humble man. I feel he made his parents proud by winning gold.

[@jeremie2020]

We're so proud of you King Léon. Can't wait to see you again in a big event. ❤🇫🇷

[@MichaelG9788]

Incredible young man.

[@frenchfan3368]

Vive Léon Marchand!

[@saulthechicanootaku]

Considering how Leon Marchand studied at ASU and he was so incredible, I would say he's an honorary Arizonan and once a Sun Devil, always a Sun Devil. Forks up for Leon, and as an American, I wish him the best of luck for LA28!

[@SweeranSwift]

What a cute frenchie

[@prkerscathcrt]

real

[@googlypub]

They were speaking slowly to him but he speaks perfect English 😂

[@NRClips3414]

I know right 😂. Probably better than them

[@Allaiya.]

Except they weren’t speaking slowly? It’s the same pace as before he was even in the video.

[@Allaiya.]

@@NRClips3414 no

[@NRClips3414]

@@Allaiya. yes

[@charleynewman4783]

He probably speaks better English than me, not gonna lie

[@ailina63]

Those who think USA TODAY should not interview him, are you stupid or what? He is studying and is trained in the US . That's why!! Bravo Léon! Tu es le meilleur!

[@NRClips3414]

I think it's just they hate USA Today in general. Not Leon.

[@Wowowowowowowowowowowowow]

Also people should just want to see great champions of any country. US media outlets should focus on Americans primarily, just like any other country should focus on their athletes, but no one should have a ban talking to other nationalities. Especially when they happen to speak your language so well.

[@Allaiya.]

@@Wowowowowowowowowowowowow This is the most reasonable take I’ve seen

[@matthewrreis]

USA Today, the news organization, and the Today Show, broadcast on NBC, are two entirely different things.

[@KingS-m6t]

Hope American didn’t teach him how to dope.

[@cutemat75]

Hello i'm french live in PAris, Léon look like Leonardo Dicaprio and Thimothée Chalamet a super star ! :) Im verry happy for the Coatch and Leon and france and USA beacause we some Brother since WW2. I can't wait Los Angeles 2028 !

[@danielzhang1916]

thanks, see you in 4 years in Los Angeles

[@runner2008]

I think he looks like the late Michael Hutchence.

[@charleynewman4783]

I think he looks American

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

Timothy has Sharp V jawline

[@azurman3]

Tu mélanges tous les sujets, dans un mauvais anglais

[@OfficialWorldChampion]

I’m glad he apologized for not shaking his competitor’s coach’s hand.

[@Allaiya.]

Congrats on the golds. Didn’t realize he could speak English or trained in the US before this interview. His English is very 👌

[@realalbertan]

Lead ASU to a national title at NCAAs

[@Review_Master00]

English is literally the most spoken and known language in the world so it's normal it’s very easy to learn bro

[@danielzhang1916]

yeah it's very clear just a slight accent which is normal

[@Allaiya.]

@@Review_Master00 Yeah but I am still not going to just assume that everyone knows it.

[@MN-vz8qm]

​@@Allaiya. You do well, his english is better than what you will usually hear from french people of any age.

[@amicst]

i love him!!!

[@foxtrotbravo1060]

Léa Salami en pls

[@Zelemon]

Salami 🤣🤣🤣

[@Scrubik1]

@@Zelemondes gamins que vous êtes

[@wynoi_yt]

Désolé, j'ai pas le temps. On m'attend sur NBC.

[@Youtubork]

Dis toi que Leon a claqué des interviews fleuves, des lives entiers, etc… sur les chaînes américaines, UK, espagnoles, allemandes, NL, brésiliennes, japonaises… et même Inde/Algérie/Turquie, Corée… MAIS IL A SNOBÉ Salamé 😂😂😂😂 Oh le génie 😂😂😂

[@Cousinouf]

@@Youtubork en vrai il a fait la bonne chose en snobant Salamé mais en faisant quand même une interview fleuve avec Anne-Sophie Lapix pour ne pas snober totalement France 2

[@nikkos34]

Paris is not his "home town", he is from Toulouse in the south of France.

[@SweeranSwift]

WHO CARE?

[@nikkos34]

@@SweeranSwift I do

[@danielzhang1916]

they meant home country, he knows what they meant

[@wanchunhu3994]

It meant home country, he comes from france

[@francisnguyen6349]

Leon Marchand got his 5 time Olympic medalists in 4 gold medals 🥇 and 1 bronze medal 🥉 in Paris, France 🇫🇷 2024 Summer Olympic Games! Et merci via la France.

[@WorldTrotterHereandBeyond]

See you in LA!

[@malloreeboone]

I have a huge crush on him

[@denisezink386]

I saw you went up to the Chinese team coaches to greet and shake hands! Thank you for being good sport! And also congrats for beating the Americans!!!

[@oliver6224]

No, did u see a Chinese coach trying to shake his hamds and he completely ignores him. No sportsmanship

[@wanchunhu3994]

Don't be alienate, USA and France have a good relationship😊

[@plumeria66]

@@oliver6224He probably didn’t see him and was focused on something else. Are you a snowflake?

[@BH-oc3rt]

Lots of swimmers left the village during the competition days because it take 1 hour and half to commute to the pool the south korean swimming team moved to an appartment 5 min away on foot to the pool in order to have better conditions. So there’s nothing wrong with that the anti doping team was informed about Leon relocation from the start they just mistakenly showed up at the wrong place.

[@PP-3b2ox]

Yeah, true, i heard popovici is staying in an airbnb

[@erictheisen3203]

Oh yeah me too!

[@teej143]

Well done Leon!

[@TesUnConSphérique]

Lean Marchons is good for a french !

[@nyr14]

Give us back Bob Bowman and no one has to get hurt… we’ll maybe throw in the Statue of Liberty to sweeten the deal

[@charleynewman4783]

It is Léon Marchand you don’t pronounce the D by the way

[@charleynewman4783]

He speaks perfect English, I swear

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

He's attending Arizona State University and training with Phelps 's former coach

[@jackdanielss]

Just became an instant multimillionaire

[@alex324ization]

7hours /days during years of training is not that sudden.

[@moyndebs6759]

AMAZING

[@AnythingJW]

He is Phelps v. 2

[@runner2008]

He is wonderful. And I also think he looks like the late Michael Hutchence.

[@kristinchong629]

2028/ here we go🎉🎉🎉

[@Adri-gp2us]

American accent now...

[@SainyaHokage]

Or when your English teacher in France teaches you english for 2 hours a week during 10 years, you can't align two words of english and then you spend 2 months in the USA...

[@danielzhang1916]

@@SainyaHokage they teach English the wrong way, memorizing vocab doesn't help at all

[@nathanielthomas4437]

I think its hilarious that they talked about Michael Phelps like he didn't know who he was.

[@pamelawing5747]

Marchand has excellent English skills because of living in the US but he probably spoke English before coming here. European kids take English in school and take it usually for many years and they start every young. I have never had ah issue with English when in Paris and I have some French so it works. When in Copenhagen and Stockholm literally almost everyone speaks perfect English AND I was expecting British English and to my surprise they have perfect American accents. They start learning English in third grade and take it all through their schooling and when then get into high school they have to pick an additional language to learn. WE do NOT educate our children.

[@pierreraymond6207]

Léa salamé brisée 🤭

[@86wellacre]

Trained by Bob Bowman that’s why he’s good?

[@philippedevine5124]

He was good before but needed to improve. But it's Bob that phoned Léon to offer joining the Arizona University, Bob having noticed the quality of this man.

[@azurman3]

Not at all, Léon is the one who sent an email to Bowman as he wanted to compete in NCAA

[@lisal6121]

He’s a great athlete. AMERICA trained, AMERICA therapy, AMERICA strategy. Medals for France. Yeah, I’m a bitter.

[@guyinsf]

Cutie!

[@Jade-jx6jz]

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@aymericniamenay-madembo7667]

Mbappé Wemby Marchand

[@cutemat75]

Jean du Jardin have a Oscar of best actor but is french. That's is the new USA. It's really amazing.

[@danycrown3744]

Lea salami 😂😂

[@tata570]

Better than Phelps imo

[@wanchunhu3994]

Both of them are legend okay??😊

[@rushrush1209]

Marchand is the world record holder in the 400IM, while Phelps doesn't have any indvidual world records in time. In a historical sense, I would put Phelps ahead as he has 23 golds in the Olympics. Marchand needs to do it at multiple Olympics, before we compare him to Phelps. Phelps has 13 individual gold medals in the Olympics, so Marchand has a chance at breaking that.

[@bentoucourt]

As french, I'd rather say this guy represents more my country than the Olympic Games ceremony !

[@dr_slim_shady]

Did he dope?

[@SainyaHokage]

Il parle bien l'anglish or should I say the americanish...

[@MDkid1]

BON-jooor lol

[@Allaiya.]

No offense but why is the Phelps old coach coaching a French person and not an American? After this years performance, clearly the American men’s swim team could use the help…

[@danielzhang1916]

he was asked to coach France for the Olympics, Marchand trains under him in the US

[@yolo7169]

And why Simone Biles have french coaches ? Because we live in a globalized world...

[@runner2008]

Many US athletes have foreign nationals as coaches. The US womens soccer team had a swedish coach for a long time.

[@Allaiya.]

@@yolo7169 Apparently. Didn’t realize that either

[@Correspond-lk5wp]

Money talks

[@Issoulachancla54]

Il a bien raison d’avoir refusé Salamé ! Nous ne le méritons pas et il aurait bien raison de nager pour les US. Y’a qu’à voir les gauchistes s’acharner sur lui depuis une semaine, à scruter le moindre faux pas qu’il ferait ou dirait. GG roi Léon 👑

[@synkaan2167]

Mais qu'est ce que tu racontes mdr Qui a gauche s'est acharné sur lui et en faisant quoi ? Le fait qu'il ait un entraineur américain ne veut pas dire qu'il doit nager pour les US lol, sinon Simone Biles devrait aussi participer en gym pour la France, ça n'a pas de sens.

[@Flo-pl5mg]

Mais ta gueule sérieux, il est français, il nage pour la France, point barre. C'est pas une question de mérite ou non

[@Issoulachancla54]

@@synkaan2167 à moins de vivre dans une grotte t’as pas pu rater les gaucho de partout tenter de lui nuire peut importe le moyen, accusation de dopage, d’être d’extrême droite à cause du symbole roi sur son Twitter (qu’il a finalement supprimé..), aujourd’hui une séquence bien tronquée de 3 secondes où il n’a pas le temps de signer un autographe afin de le faire passer pour un connard etc. Alors évidemment que dans ces conditions il n’ait pas vraiment envie d’être médiatisé ici

[@red-one5923]

Attend deja de quoi les gauchistes ? Et si t'es pas gauchistes ? Genre quelq'un de droite va accepté comme toi normal qu'il nage pour les USA ? Faut que tu ailles te faire soigné et t'informer mon gros! Tu divagues beaucoup trop! Les gauchistes qui s'acharne sur lui XPTDR ! C'est la droite qui est conservatrice !

[@ailina63]

C'est quoi le rapport avec la gauche? La droite et les fachos , vous êtes contre les étrangers, les étudiants étrangers mais par contre quand un français se casse à l'étranger, ça vous pose pas de problème. Vous êtes contradictoire. Depuis quand les gens de gauches sont contre les voyages et étudier à l'étranger??

[@yonggeun4222]

he should have done 1 more individual and 2 more relays and swim 7 days a week every single day for 6 years from 2018 to 2024 then he could have equaled michael phelpss 8 gold medals in a single olympics

[@reginaldsmith2024]

If u train and live in the us your medals shouldn’t go to another country!!!!

[@fraukapellmeisterherrbach3638]

Should we take all the medals of Simone Biles then as she's training in France ?

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

Most of the winter Olympians, especially ice dancing pair all trained in Montreal, Canada, because of the foremer winter Olympic champions run the program. Whoever has the talent and money gets the best coach

[@Sovaddict77]

Jeez, what’s this nonsense you’re talking about? The medals always go to the athletes and their birth country even if they live elsewhere. Léon is not an American citizen.

[@reginaldsmith2024]

@@Sovaddict77 yeah but the only reason he and many athletes r winning is because of America 😭

[@jrnumex9286]

2;45 never say "of course" to someone's comment as implies so stupid obvious to even say

[@chuckxu5910]

Tran-ny always breaks the female swimmers record 🏊Katie Ledecky

[@amaz-dp9um]

so if Today interviewing Marchand then why not the Chinese team that just won & broke US record of winning gold in medley relay. Also the star swimmer Pan! Today do better - equal opportunity!

[@51Saffron]

Maybe they don't want to be interviewed. They are from China. I am sure there are rules. Don't assume.

[@Kat-zj5kd]

pls let the chinese celebrate their dope laced victory the rest of the world doesn' buy it

[@matteo2721]

Marchand got more gold medals in swimming than China as a whole

[@joso5554]

Maybe this has just a tiny little relation to the fact that - he has been training in the US for 4 years - he is closely connected to Michael Phelps and shares the same coach - he is perfectly fluent in English - and he alone won 4 gold medals and broke all 4 Olympic records in 5 days Any Chinese swimmer coming anywhere close to him ????

[@joso5554]

Oh, and he won 2 gold medals on the same day, which Michael Phelps never achieved at the Olympics.

[@季磊-c2j]

can you explain why he avoided dope test by staying out of olympic village??? this is all over the news. the test people said there is a mistake of his whereabouts obviously!!!

[@testman9541]

Sure, big swiming teams like France have arranged rentals closer to the swiming pool for top atheletes competing on several category to help them to rest and save on comute time between two races. Marchand used that facility to had a better sleep. After Gold medal and before going to bed he went to the doping test in the swiming pool as usual and then went to the flat next door to sleep. The tester were willing to have a sample from him also in the early morning but instead of waiting him at the flat or at the swiming pool went to his room at the Village 😂 And when Marchand arrived in the swiming pool they did not ask for the sample either. They are supposed to be pro I guess 🤦 Anyway with the tens of sample they have the know his profile. And be sure Phelps had someone else in mind when talking about doping ? Red doping 😅

[@robertpotier8202]

It is very easy. The French team was in the Olympic Village which is far away. His coach found an accomodation near to where the competition took place. Marchand declared it. The inspectors apologised they saw the message too late. Of course, he was controlled all the other days.

[@testman9541]

@@robertpotier8202 AFAIK this is a declared accomodation from the French Swiming Federation all along. It was used by other too. But Marchan might have been the #1 beneficiary since he ran on multiplie variants days after days for multiple days in a row. They even had to arrange some timing for race in order for him to rest the bare couple hours minimum between finals.

[@garyspence2128]

All the swimmers have to undergo drug testing. Please stop spreading false info about all that. Some people...

[@realalbertan]

They updated the whereabouts. The testers had the old info. Someone probably printed it out before it was updated

[@Maijima-]

only team USA medalists should be getting interviewed by the today show....this feels forced

[@andre86w]

Why? He lived and trained in the US. He also has won the most golds at these games. Where there's a connection, there's a story.

[@AlainDenis-pd1vl]

@maijima arrêtez de penser que vous êtes la seule personne sur cette planète..les autres ont aussi le droits d'exister et d'avoir la parole ...vous n'êtes pas la représentation que je connais de l'américain universel

[@joso5554]

So the Today show shouldn’t talk about anything else than US stuff?? At some point, you should realize that the US represents 5% of the world’s population. Why would the Today show even bother to go to Paris for the Olympics then? It’s just absolutely pathetic being so self-centered.

[@cutemat75]

@@AlainDenis-pd1vl Hello i'm french i live in Paris american and french are brother for the life since WW2. thank you so much for your support for Léon.

[@Allaiya.]

@@AlainDenis-pd1vldo French news programs interview Americans?

[@krisvillanueva3877]

Racist marchand lol

[@duvauclin5424]

why ?