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LEON MARCHAND

Canada's Summer McIntosh (left) and France's Leon Marchand celebrate after winning best female and male swimmer at the World Aquatics Championships.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Aug 4, 2025
Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh underline dominance on final day of worlds
Marchand and McIntosh won golds on the final day of competition.
Canada's Summer McIntosh competes in the women's 200-meter butterfly final during the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Aug 1, 2025
Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand outpace rivals at world championships
McIntosh earned her third individual gold medal of the meet.
Leon Marchand celebrates after breaking the men's 200-meter individual medley world record at the world championships in Singapore on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 31, 2025
Leon Marchand shatters 200-meter individual medley world record
The Frenchman wiped more than a second off the previous record of 1:54.00 set by Ryan Lochte in 2011.
Canadian swimming star Summer McIntosh competes at the Paris Olympics last August.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 26, 2025
Golden Summer beckons for swimming world championships in Singapore
The battle between Canadian teen Summer McIntosh and American icon Katie Ledecky highlights the program at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
French swimmer Leon Marchand waves to the crowd during a parade featuring Olympians and Paralympians in Paris on Saturday.
OLYMPICS
Sep 15, 2024
France says final farewell to Olympics with parade on Champs-Elysees
Around 70,000 people gathered for the parade, which featured athletes, volunteers and public sector workers.
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
OLYMPICS
Aug 12, 2024
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Following a tumultuous buildup to the Games, France staged a successful and mostly problem-free Olympics.
Leon Marchand swims during the 200-meter individual medley final at La Defense Arena in Paris on Friday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 3, 2024
Leon Marchand breaks Michael Phelps’ Olympic record to win fourth gold in Paris
Marchard set his fourth Olympic record of the Games during the race.
France's Leon Marchand competes in the final of the 200-meter breaststroke at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 1, 2024
Magnifique: Magical Marchand sweeps to Olympic double
The 22-year-old bagged his first gold of the night in the 200 fly, and then showed incredible reserves of stamina to motor home in the 200 breaststroke.
France's Leon Marchand celebrates after winning the Olympic final of the men's 400-meter individual medley at the Paris Games on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jul 29, 2024
Magic Marchand delivers 400 meters IM gold for France as Matsushita takes silver
The 22-year-old Marchand, nicknamed the "French Michael Phelps," carried the expectations of a nation into his first event but he simply crushed his rivals.
France's Leon Marchand poses with his gold medal after winning the men's 200-meter individual medley during the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 30, 2023
Bob Bowman says Leon Marchand can handle Paris Games pressure
With three gold medals and a world record, the French sensation has been one of the competition's stars at this week's world championships in Fukuoka.
Toyoko Kids: The lonely street children of Tokyo
Many young people who feel neglected at home flock to the Toyoko area to find a community where they can fit in.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”
Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.
University of Tokyo lands its highest spot ever in global higher education ranking
The University of Tokyo in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward
Tokyo named world’s best big city for second straight year
Tokyo was ranked the world's best large city for the second year in a row in the Conde Nast Traveler's 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.
With nuclear sub proposal, Japan faces array of political and tech challenges
The Jingei, the third of the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Taigei-class submarines, was commissioned in March last year. It is equipped with lithium-ion batteries, enabling it to have a longer diving time and cruising distance than older models with lead-acid batteries.

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