Marchand feels 'lucky' to compete in front of a home crowd

Marchand says that it was a special feeling to be able to compete at his home games in front of French fans.

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00:00I feel just so lucky about it. Some like legend of swimming like Michael didn't

00:05have a chance to do that and I was really trying to enjoy every moment. I

00:08guess the 4 a.m. prelims was kind of crazy for me. It was just like shocking.

00:1215,000 people just screaming my name was insane so it was a really good feeling.

00:17I'm pretty proud of myself because I had a lot of expectations on my shoulders

00:22before and I was pretty good at just doing it you know so I'm really happy

00:27about it and that means my mental preparation was really good.