AMERICAN coach Bob Bowman was left beaming when Leon Marchand claimed a sensational 200m butterfly and 200m breaststroke double gold at the Paris Games on Wednesday, breaking Olympic records in both events that were held less than two hours apart.
Bowman, who coached the greatest Olympian of all time in 28-time Olympic medallist Michael Phelps, took Marchand under his wing in college in Arizona and the Frenchman did not leave his side when the now 59-year-old coach moved to Austin, Texas.
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