Jeremy Desplanches is coming off a trying week during the French championships in Rennes, where he competed in 14 races in six days.
“It’s been a while since I’ve had so much fun swimming in so many races,” says Genevan, who is targeting a final in the 200m medley at the worlds in Fukuoka at the end of July.
“Pleasure is relative, because I swam hard in the morning (in the heats) and in the afternoon (during the final) but didn’t get amazing results. Not rested, not sharpened, there were fighters ahead,” he slips.
The French were actually playing qualification for the Worlds, scheduled for July 23 to 30, while Jeremy Desplanches was there to test himself. “The French championships are always used to point out my mistakes. That’s what happened,” the Tokyo 2021 Olympic bronze medalist confided in Keystone-ATS by phone on Monday.
These defects are toning and casting. “Swimmers have developed a lot in these areas in recent years. I was already far behind, now I’m even more, because I started from very, very far. It’s mine to put the work in doubles”, explains the 2018 European champion in the 200m medley.
“But I don’t want to double down on something that doesn’t work. I want to find what works for me and train harder. I’ve watched a lot of underwater videos to find out what works for me. I’ll never be successful with my performance, but I want to avoid failure,” he continues. .
Seconds were wasted
Jeremy Desblanches only noticed the damage when analyzing his races during the French championship. “The turns are still good. But I’m losing seconds pushing against the wall, performing and resuming the swim. I mean seconds,” laments a supporter of legendary trainer Philip Lucas.
“In the 200m medley, I missed two out of three swim recoveries. That’s a lot”, underlines the 2019 sub-world champion, who finished 5th in the 200m medley final in Rennes last Wednesday in 2000’73. Or 2022 world champion prodigy Leon Marchand (1’56”25), more than four seconds behind the winner.
Jérémy Desplanches – his best time of 1’56”17 in the final of the 2021 Olympics – was even faster during the morning series (2’00”26). “I had to work in the series because only a foreign swimmer could compete in the A final at the French championships. I was burnt out before the final”, he notes.
“I’ve already competed in nine races (red: including four the day before). It’s a bit disappointing, but the satisfaction is still there. Now I know which fields to work on until the Worlds”, which is just one level. Paris is on track for the 2024 Olympics, but he won’t approach it without ambition.
A step
“These days I have to go back to the World Finals,” recalled Jeremy Desplanches, who had a difficult 2022 season where he lost in the semifinals of the Budapest Worlds and finished 4th at the Europeans in Rome. . And I think reaching the finals is possible.
“Even though I’m not fresh, my condition is not bad. At the Swiss championships (red: in Geneva at the end of March), I had respectable results (especially 1’58”70 200m 4 strokes, his best time of the year) a little rested but mentally not the best” He explains.
“So, meeting my head + in the game + and my body, I find my marks very quickly,” rejoices Jeremy Desplanches, for whom a bad pass early in the year is ancient history. . “I no longer swam to swim, I found Nyack, I found a purpose,” he says.
The goal is of course the Paris 2024 Olympics, in which the Genevan dreams of hitting the final blow on her 30th birthday. “I left a cycle of one and a half years. For me, the end of this season is not the same, it is the beginning of the Olympic season”, he notes.
“I already have my eyes on Paris and have a 16-month plan in mind. The Worlds are very important and I’m aiming for the final there. But it’s just a step”, he said, for which he will be preparing in a big way. Maintenance. “There’s joy in every training session. I go back there with anger and desire.”
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