🇫🇷Leon Marchand and 🇨🇭Noe Ponti Tie for the Win at 100m Individual Medley at Swimming World Cup 2024

The sprint medley as they're calling it. They're in the water and watch for the early speed of Ponte. Seto can't match them off the start. Marchand not far away through that butterfly leg, but Ponte gets a nice clean turn there in second position. So Ponte working the underwaters. We haven't mentioned that name of Thomas Cechon, the Italian going out with some good intentions through that first 50. Ponte still goes the touch turn. Cechon and Marchand flips. Marchand down below the yellow lanes. Watch for the white cap of the Frenchman. He rises up to the shoulder and blows straight by Cechon and Ponte. So Marchand from third to first through that breaststroke leg, staying underwater. We know what Cechon can do in the freestyle leg. And Ponte coming again. It's going to be a three-way finish. I can't pick it. Leon Marchand. Gold to Leon Marchand again. It's a dead heat with Ponte. 51-0-0. Only one one-hundredth of a second separated them last week in Shanghai. And now they dead heat for first place. Well, we knew it was going to be tight. Cechon in third spot, not far away at all. And that's our first dead heat for gold of this year's World Cup Series. Marchand doing it for the Koreans. Boy, would they love to have him representing them at the Olympic stage. The only final of the night for the Frenchman. He just swam three IM events last week and won those, especially the longer individual medley events. Really convincingly was fourth in the 200 breaststroke. He's just looking to brace himself into some shape on the way to Budapest. Not looking as dominant underwater as we saw in Paris. Scrapping at the finish there. And Ponte as well had a big turn and swam over the top of Cechon. Classic racing here in the 100 IM. We love to see it. Noah Ponte and Leon Marchand. Dead heat for gold. Thomas Cechon there in third position.