After having excelled at the Singapore swimming worlds this summer, Maxime Grousset has recently found the school benches. Because to ensure his future, the 26 -year -old swimmer prefers to play on two tables. And it therefore juggles two jobs.
This year again, Maxime Grousset will often have to swap his swimsuit against … a white coat! Because, in addition to feeding hopes of gold medals at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, the young man continues his studies.
Maxime Grousset’s double life: “It is really not easy to reconcile both”
After three years in Staps, the swimmer from Nouméa (New Caledonia) integrated a course last year to become a physiotherapist at the Saint-Maurice hospital, in Val-de-Marne. Last August, when he took advantage of a well -deserved rest on his island where he had not returned for two years, the young man answered some questions from our colleagues from 1st. “I prepare my after career. Even if it is really not easy to reconcile both “, said the basin of Léon Marchand Basin.
“For studies, to do the exams, it’s okay, I get around it. But it is for internships where it is complicated to associate training and internship knowing that for example, in the second year, I have twice six weeks of internship. They are not obvious to stall in my schedule that rhymes with stresses, training, internships and competitions”then entrusted Maxime Grousset.
Maxime GROUSSET in medicine: “The double project is also good at the head”
However, the one who stood out at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games before shining at the World Swimming Worlds in Singapore by winning gold twice, knows why he makes all these efforts. “The double project is also good at the head. Taking a roughly normal course and seeing what it does to work every day, it changes its air and habits”had he also entrusted in the columns of The team in October 2024.
Next September 14, and despite an overloaded timetable, the swimmer of the French team – specialist in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and the 50 m and 100 m butterfly – will also be present at the Sports Festival in Paris. It will represent swimming alongside Laure and Florent Manaudou.
