Laure Manaudou and the Future of French Success

One of the most controversial female French athletes, Laure Manaudou, is qualified for 3 finals and one semifinal at the Olympics in Beijing. She is having a rough time in and out the pool due to the nude photos and sex tapes rumors.

Everyone wondered if she was strong enough to leave all the rumors behind and compete with a clear mind and actually qualify and maybe win a medal at the Olympics. In Dunkrik, she suffered a defeat and she simply burst into tears having a nervous breakdown in front on everyone present there.

The nervous breakdown was due to the fact that she had to face her first defeat in four years and that wasn`t something she could put up with. She had the power to come back and she qualified for the Olympics with a time of 4:6.67, but she placed only third. Her world record at 400 meter freestyle was broken by Federica Pellegrini at the European Championship.

She was also fired from the Italian Club where she used to swim because she left her coach and had some attitude problems when dealing with him. Her coach admitted she has psychological problems, to which he connected her bad performance. When things seemed to turn around a new controversy was put forward by some nude photos.

Lionel Horter says that: “What we have to change is the level of pleasure she gets from swimming and change her way of life during the next three months," he said. This was the plan to get her back in shape for the Olympics. “She’s had a breakout year,” Phelps said. “She’s definitely a talented swimmer. I was pretty impressed about that triple.”

Her diet is mostly made up by carbohydrates and lots of calories because she burns a lot with practice. She drinks a lot of energizers and water, but when it comes to Laure Manaudou the swimmer, we can`t actually talk about dehydration. She said it`s very easy for her to keep fit and in shape because a swimmer does most of the workout during practice.

Regarding her diet, she eats healthy in order to help her body in perfect state and therefore, help herself in her goal of winning gold at the Olympics. Her only problem would be her psychological status with which she has some problems, sometimes she feels like she can barely control herself.