His name and surname are associated with the golden age of French swimming. On August 14, 2008, Alain Bernard became the first French Olympic champion in the 100-meter freestyle. A colossal feat in a specialty usually phagocytosed by Americans and Australians. But the native of Aubagne was not the only one to sparkle the tricolor in the pools at the time. At the end of the decade, a queen is also hungry for Olympic medals. Laure Manaudou, prodigy of the discipline, and multiple awarded in major championships, is already more than a sportswoman, she is a star. Everyone tears the face of this young woman who seduces the crowds.
So inevitably, these two crossed paths, must have exchanged, but who could have imagined that they also flirted? In any case, this is what Alain Bernard reveals in an interview with Le Figaro. On the occasion of the release of his autobiography My Olympic destiny (Talent Editions) in which he evokes this secret connection, the former Olympic champion returned to these revelations.
Laure Manaudou would not have been warned
“She is not aware of this passage. It was a romance and there is nothing denigrating about it “, explains Alain Bernard a few days before the release of his book. “I tried to speak about it with the right words”, adds the former swimmer. For now, Laure Manaudou has not yet reacted to confirm or not this revelation made by the tall blond.
After an idyll with another swimmer, Frédérik Bousquet, father of her daughter Manon, Laure Manaudou has found love on the arm of singer Jérémy Frérot, from the group Fréro Delavega. On July 18, 2017, the couple gave birth to their first child, a baby boy named Lou. In mid-January 2021, they welcomed a second boy.
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