RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- There is an unwritten tradition at every Olympic Games: a young local hero emerges to stir the hearts of the public, carrying the weight of the nation's hopes and etching their story into the collective memory. Nobody did this more at the Paris 2024 Games than swimmer Leon Marchand,... read full story
"It was kind of shocking at first to have 15,000 people cheering for me,"