Lukas Märtens also dominates his second final, and the next victory seems possible. What happens next has to do with a wrong tactic – and with the gold race before.
After Lukas Märtens got out of the water on Monday evening after his second final race at the Summer Olympics, he retreated behind a partition that shielded him from the view of the audience in the La Défense swimming pool in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Märtens sank to the floor and sat there for a few minutes. His chest rose and fell, Märtens breathed heavily, and he kept closing his eyes for a moment. He looked like a man whose body had just lost all its strength.
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