Paris (AFP)
The 2012 Olympic champion and 2016 and 2020 Olympic vice-champion of the one-way ticket will nevertheless remain licensed in Marseille.
"I am moving on Saturday and I start training on Tuesday, he explains to AFP. I have always taken the years one after the other, but the plan is to do the three years (until at the Olympics-2024) in Antibes, and which I perform in Paris. "
"There are plenty of things behind this choice, develops Manaudou. There were some small tensions at the Cercle (the Marseille club, Editor's note), plus Pernille (Blume, his Danish partner, also a swimmer) who told me afterwards the Games: + Do you see yourself living elsewhere than in Marseille in the future? + At the beginning, it was no. And then the idea matured in my head during the summer. "
"Julien (Jacquier, with whom he trained in Marseille) is an excellent coach, very involved, who does great programs, who has a lot of ideas, I have absolutely nothing to say about that. But on the side human, we have fewer hooks with Julien than what I can have with Quentin and Yoris, or what I could have with James (Gibson), Romain (Barnier) or even my brother. this closeness to my trainer, "he continues.
"Quentin and Yoris are young coaches, who have lots of ideas. There will be a lot of exchanges with them. That's really what motivated me. And I really like the duos", continues the sprinter who will be 31 in November.
"It's going to be a year of transition" before "going back to two years at a very high level," described about the 2021/2022 season Manaudou, who plans to participate in the 2022 Worlds at the end of May in Fukuoka, Japan, but not at the 2022 European Championships in Rome in August.
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