He said "to have resumed training without the niaque".
Here he is, world champion.
Two months, after his world records at -116 m and -117 m, achieved this summer in the Bahamas - records broken in the wake by the Russian Alexey Molchanov, at -118 m - the freediver from Marseille Arnaud Jerald has just been crowned champion of the world.
In the competition which took place in Turkey on Saturday, he descended to -116m.
Sufficient depth to clinch the title, competitor Alexey Molchanov having been disqualified after a diving foul.
“I found myself going deep a lot easier than I did at the start of the season,” commented the athlete.
It took one minute and thirty-four seconds to reach -116 m and slightly more to come back to the surface, his total dive time being 3'18 ''.
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“Basically, we think much faster than on the surface”, says the freediver and record holder Arnaud Jerald
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Freediving world record: "I was sure I could go to the bottom," says Arnaud Jerald after his feat.
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