Léon Marchand, who was the revelation of the Paris Olympic Games, is already thinking of his sports retirement. The swimmer knows exactly in which area he would like to convert … Very far from the pools!
At only 23, Léon Marchand has already fulfilled his biggest dream: to become Olympic champion. During the Paris Olympics in 2024, he won everything by winning four gold medals. However, the new hero of the French would already think of leaving the pools and converting to a completely different field …
Léon Marchand: After swimming, he would like to convert in …
For the moment, the champion is preparing the Worlds, which will be held in Singapore this summer, and trains in the United States after long vacation in Australia. But in a few years, when he will have to retire sports, what will be his plan B? Unlike many athletes who become coaches or commentators with media, Toulouse nourishes the hope of exercising a profession in a very different field.
“”Since I was very small, I really like astrophysics, astronomy and space“He had told the Parisian A few months ago. Léon Marchand would therefore like to know business life and make this other passion for his job. “”In recent years, I have realized that I could perhaps work in this subject. So I would like to do this later. I would like to wake up in the morning, go to a business where I work on it and I would be the happiest in the world“, He said. Besides, in parallel with his swimming training, he continued studies in computer science and programming at the University of Arizona.
The son of Olympic swimmers Xavier Marchand and Céline Bonnet is decidedly full of resources since in addition to swimming and astronomy, there is another discipline that interests him particularly. “”I also like music, I mix. I really like house, I’m really interested in that too“He said.
Léon Marchand, “not done” for celebrity: “I try to hide …”
Leon Marchand may be an ordinary 23 year old young man, with rather common aspirations and passions, his daily life has been completely turned upside down from the Olympic Games! Last summer, he vibrated millions of French people and is now a real star. Difficult to pass incognito! “”I put a cap and glasses, I try to hide a little (…) Afterwards, when people stop me on the street, that’s to say thank you. It’s super benevolent and positive, I really take it at the heart“He had explained to 20 minutes.
If he adapts to this new notoriety, it is not always easy for it to live, as he had entrusted to Franceinfo : “I am not made for that and it is not something that galvanizes me, it is something that I must do more, a full job“. A notoriety which must also have an impact on his love life but if Léon Marchand does not currently seem as a couple.
