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PARIS - At the Paris pool, rapturous crowds go mad each time he swims, chanting his name at every stroke. He is on the front pages of French newspapers. And across France, people stop in the streets to watch his races on their phone. Welcome to Marchand madness. Leon Marchand , who has won three gold medals at the Games and is vying for two more, has become the French face of the 2024 Paris Olympics and the home crowd cannot get enough of him.
The crowd watching the table tennis events broke into a spontaneous rendition of France's La Marseillaise national anthem when Marchand won his first gold on Wednesday."We were at the ping pong and, in the ping pong arena, everyone was shouting 'Leon, Leon'. There was a huge fervor. It was a huge moment of pleasure," said Nicolas Durancon, a human resources worker from Lyon."He's a rocket. It's surely a lot of work, it's a lot of talent.
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