Léon Marchand expected at Club France for celebrations after making history at Paris Olympics

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00:00Now that the pool events in swimming are over,

00:02something of a pool party for the competitors and the fans.

00:07It's underway at Club France.

00:09Clovis Casalie picked the short straw

00:11for this difficult assignment.

00:13Clovis, where are things at?

00:18There are worst assignments indeed, François.

00:21Here it's all about celebrations at the Club France.

00:24I can tell you the French male swimmers are here.

00:28Léon Marchand, the superstar, the new Michael Phelps,

00:31as so many people are calling him with his four gold medals,

00:34and also his partners, who he won the bronze in relay,

00:38all here, including Florent Manodou.

00:42He is, of course, the French flag bearer,

00:45and you can see around me more and more people,

00:47some people saying hi, more and more people,

00:49because the French swimmers are about to appear on stage

00:53to celebrate with all their supporters.

00:57And Clovis, it's, as you mentioned,

01:01bronze in the relays to finish it all off.

01:04A bit of a bittersweet feeling for the British,

01:07who finished in fourth place.

01:13Indeed, François, and we are, after all,

01:15an international news channel,

01:16so we're not just going to cover Club France.

01:18This morning, I was at Club GB in the Bois de Boulogne,

01:22and I got the chance to talk face-to-face with Adam Peaty.

01:25He's a legend in the sport,

01:27possibly the best 100m graystroke swimmer in history.

01:32He won two gold medals in the last Olympic Games,

01:36and this time he only got silver.

01:38He did get COVID after all, so he's clearly not on best form.

01:43I asked him about doping accusations he's been making.

01:46Actually, let's talk about a lack of transparency, as he puts it,

01:50and he believes China should be under scrutiny.

01:53Let's listen to him.

01:57I think the lack of transparency is very disappointing,

01:59firstly from Wada, and very suspicious.

02:03So, you know, I'm always a spoken athlete

02:06because I know how hard it is for an athlete

02:09who plays fair and true to do this sport,

02:13and I don't want to leave it in a place where,

02:15you know, maybe in four years' time,

02:17leave it in a place where, you know,

02:18people are getting away with it.

02:20They should be held accountable,

02:21because not only is it fraud for the people that are racing,

02:24but it's fraud for the people watching as well.

02:26And we need to treat it as so, and we just need to be better.

02:29And the people who are doing those jobs need to do it better.

02:32There's a lot of great people in sport, amazing people,

02:35but there's also people who let it down.

02:37And I think the transparency is going to be absolutely,

02:43it's just going to be crucial the next, you know,

02:46few Olympic Games to make sure that trust is still there.

02:51And clearly, he needed Adam Gritti to get this off his chest.

02:59And I asked him, do you think you will continue swimming?

03:02Do you want to continue swimming or are you going to retire?

03:06He said he needed to take time to think about the situation,

03:09take time to talk to his family and friends about it.

03:13Of course, when you're such a big swimmer, such an athlete,

03:17it's a lot of sacrifices and possibly he wants to take some rest for a bit.

03:22Anyway, he said he wanted to go back to the UK, rest.

03:25These games were still good for him.

03:28He did clinch silver and he saw his teammates win the gold

03:33in the 200 metre medley relay.

03:36So it was still a good game for him.

03:38And I asked him, of course, him and his teammates,

03:40how have these Paris Games been according to you?

03:44And he said, great atmosphere.

03:46And his teammates said, yes, but the food not that great in the athletes village.

03:51And that's why they got their own cook over.

03:54Clovis Casalie, we're going to have to continue this discussion

03:56about what the British consider good food.

03:59Thank you for that live update from Club France,

04:01where they're awaiting star swimmer Léon Marchand.

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