Day 1 Review (Paris 2026 Euro Champs)

But we kick things off with the men's 400 meters individual medley final.

Um, big French crowd expecting Marchand in this one.

Obviously, he's not racing.

The abductor injury has pulled him out of anything breaststroke.

So the 200 meters individual medley later on this week, Hubert Koss is licking his lips at this one.

Um, the men's 400 meters individual medley, it opened the door.

Um, and it was Ilya Borodin, who's been around in the scene for a little while now.

We've not seen him race here and there because of Russian sanctions and stuff like that, and he got COVID heading into the Tokyo Olympics when I think he was favorite for it back then.

I picked him to win that one, yeah.

You did.

You did.

Mm.

Um, this is fifth... five years after his first European title in this one.

He comes through in a 408.17, which is a championship record, I would say with an asterisk 'cause there's no Leon who's racist at Europeans yet.

Yeah.

Um, it's right there or thereabouts of the top swimmers in the world, like right where, um, Claebot was at Commonwealth Games.

Yep.

Yeah.

I mean, we'll, we'll have a talk about Pinepax as well at some point, but that's-

that's-... field I think will probably be deeper.

That will probably be won in a 4.5, 4.6.

But going to this race-

Super deep

... uh, Borodin was, I suppose, yeah, he just looked the stronger out of the whole field.

Rossetti took it out strong in the fly.