“I need you”: Léon Marchand calls on Internet users for help, this person he wants to find

Léon Marchand tries to make up for it and calls on his community. In a message published on X this Tuesday, August 6, 2024, the four-time Olympic champion asked Internet users to find a little girl who asked him for an autograph in front of the TF1 cameras. A wish that he had not granted her.

Léon Marchand must now face the repercussions of being known worldwide. After winning four individual gold medals, the swimmer has now won a fifth award, along with his counterparts from the French team. A real professional success at the age of 22. The young swimmer now reigns over French swimming and has been unanimously loved by sports fans since the launch of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday, July 26.

A status that the young Olympic athlete has difficulty achieving. “It’s a new life, yes. It's not going to be easy for me, I'm only 22, it's happening all of a sudden like that quite quickly, in a week in the end, so I'm going to try to live with it, I'm well surrounded so I think it'll work out“he explained to BFMTV on Monday, August 5. And since his various coronations, Léon Marchand has been trying to get used to his new notoriety. But there have sometimes been hiccups.

In search of Apolline

The Olympic champion wants to make up for his mistake. In a message published on X this Tuesday, August 6, the swimmer asked his subscribers to find a little girl who had asked him for an autograph, which he had not granted her, for “give him a little gift”.

“Guys, I need you to find this little girl's contact so I can give her a little gift.”the 22-year-old wrote to his 84,000 fans on the social network.

The athlete is looking for little Apolline, who, in a sequence broadcast during the TF1 morning show this Tuesday, handed him a notebook in which she had carefully noted all of the swimmer's times, to ask for his autograph. “I'm sorry, I don't have time”retorted the Toulousain.

“Léon Marchand is my role model, he represents everything to me”explained Apolline a few seconds earlier, who assured with a smile that her idol's refusal was not “nevermind”. Now, the young man wants to make up for it and hopes that Internet users will find the young girl. A pretty clever move when you know all the surprises that the magic of the Internet has in store.