Laure Manaudou scandal pictures!
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August 12th, 2008
French swimmer Laure Manaudou is now at the centre of a nude picture controversy.
She is currently the world record holder for the 400 m freestyle and 200 m freestyle swimming. Manaudou also won the gold medal in the women’s 400 m freestyle swimming at the 2004 Athens Olympics for France. Laura Manaudou is also competing for France in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She was seen in the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Parade of Nations/Athletes.
Laura Manaudou is at the center of a racy picture controversy in Europe. Her former boyfriend and also a swimmer, Luca Marin is accused of posting the video and racy pictures of Manaudou, and which he denies. “I know nothing about the video and have only seen the photos. Yes, it looks like it’s really her but it is ridiculous to think it was me who put them there,” Marin said.
Laura Manaudou seems to have survived this controversy as she is now in Beijing competing for the Olympics.
Laure Manaudou Bio
Laure Manaudou is a French Olympic, World and European champion swimmer. She is the daughter of a French father and a Dutch mother. She was born on October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne where it grows and learns how to swim at the six years age. Attracted by water and swimming, it quickly shows capacities for this sport. It joined the club of Melun in 2000 and is involved very hard (2 times 7 km of stroke per day and many meetings of musculation) to reach the best level.
The results are quick to come, and within three years it beats 20 records of France. In 2003, she won a third place in the 100 m backstroke World Championships and wins his first international title. The desire to win is overwhelming and in 2004 she became the best French representative at the Olympic Games in Athens in obtaining 3 medals (1 gold over 400 m, 1 silver in 800m and a bronze in 100 m backstroke). Discovered by the general public Laure becomes an idol, but she keeps a cool head and remain focused on their sport, as proof, she became world champion in 400m in July 2005. In 2006, Laure Manaudou pulverizes the clock on 400 m (3’56 “09) and became the fastest woman in the world at that distance (she also holds the record in the World 800 metres). Woman of heart after the World Championships 2007 swim or she has won 5 medals and a new world record (1’55 “52 to swim 200m free), the beautiful Laure Manaudou decided to leave the french training center to be closer to his ex – fiancé, Luca Marin. Yet a few months later, it changes again life coming train with his brother to Ambérieux. Côté heart big change, too, because the beautiful leaves Laure Luca Marin for Benjamin Stasiulis, a young promising swimmer. Despite criticism, Laure Manaudou remains a great champion, it is proving to the European Championship in December 2007 by winning two wins and a new European record in 100 meters. Beginning 2008, in order to prepare more actively the Olympics in Beijing, Laure Manaudou made double blow by settling in Mulhouse, it is reflected in the same club as her boyfriend and trains under the leadership of Lionel Horter, a french best coach. There she is preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games. In addition she always swim under the watchful dazzled an audience captivated by its charm and talent who support once again for the Olympic Games in Beijing where it is hoped that our siren shine.
Career
Manaudou currently holds the world records for the 400 m freestyle (Short Course).
She won the gold medal in the women’s 400 m freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. It was France’s first ever gold medal in women’s swimming and the first swimming gold medal won by a French man or woman since Jean Boiteux’s triumph in the 400 m men’s freestyle event in Helsinki in 1952. Manaudou won the silver medal in the women’s 800 m freestyle at the same Olympics. In that race, she had a quick start but was passed down the stretch by Ai Shibata from Japan. She took the bronze medal at the women’s 100 m backstroke, becoming only the second Frenchwoman to win three medals in a single Summer or Winter Olympic Games. The first was track and field athlete Micheline Ostermeyer in London in 1948.
She is currently tied for second (three medals altogether) on the all-time list of French multiple female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners along with Micheline Ostermeyer, Marielle Goitschel, Pascale Trinquet-Hachin, Perrine Pelen, Anne Briand-Bouthiaux, Marie-José Pérec, Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli and Félicia Ballanger. The all-time leader is the fencer Laura Flessel-Colovic, who has five Olympic medals.
She won three gold medals at the 2004 European Swimming Championships in Madrid for the 100 m backstroke, 400 m freestyle, and the 4×100 m team medley.
On July 24, 2005 at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada Manaudou won the women’s 400 m freestyle. Manaudou was under world record pace for the first half of the race. In the second half of the race, Manaudou was challenged by Shibata, her rival from the Olympics. Pundits were already predicting that Manaudou would eventually eclipse the world-record mark in the 400 m freestyle set by Janet Evans at the 1988 Summer Olympics. This would happen on May 12, 2006, as she broke Evans’s world record of 4:03.85 during the final of the French championship in Tours with the time of 4:03.03.
On August 6, 2006, on the final day of the 2006 European Swimming Championships in Budapest, she broke her own world record with a time of 4:02:13 in winning the 400 m freestyle title. She also won the 800 m freestyle (in European record time), 200 m individual medley and 100 m backstroke titles. In addition, she obtained the bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle, 4×200 m team freestyle and 4×100 m team medley. With her four titles, she equalled the record of the number of individual titles won in the same European swimming championships held by East Germany’s Ute Geweniger (1981) and Hungary’s Krisztina Egerszegi (1993).
She broke the 200 m freestyle world record at the 2007 World Swimming Championships in Melbourne in winning the final. She also won the 400 m freestyle event, obtained a silver for the 100 m backstroke and the 800 m freestyle, and a bronze for 4×200 m freestyle relay. She was leading the race in the 800 m final going into the last lap, but the American Kate Ziegler finally overtook her in the last metres to win by a margin of 28 cm. She was thus prevented from becoming the first female swimmer to win the 200 m, 400 m and 800 m freestyle titles at the same World Championships.
The Paris Match weekly magazine did a cover story of Manaudou in its April 5-11 issue.
From 2001-2007, Manaudou was coached by Philippe Lucas. She competed for the Melun-Dammarie club until 2006, when she moved to Le Canet en Roussillon.
On May 9, 2007, she announced at a press conference at the Canet en Roussillon swim club that she was leaving her coach Philippe Lucas to move to Italy and to train with the club Lapresse Nuoto, located in Turin. She added, however, that she would continue to swim for France.
On August 6 it was reported the World and Olympic titlist had been removed from her Italian-based team. The split is said to have been triggered by a fallout between Manaudou and LaPresse Nuoto club chief executive Paolo Penso. Penso is believed to have questioned Manaudou’s attitude to training (Reuters/L’Equipe).
She won 4 medals in the European Championships of 2007, even if the manifestation was characterized by the continuous fights between her and her Italian ex-boyfriend Luca Marin.
The same day, lewd pictures of Laure Manaudou started to propagate on the Internet. Luca Marin denied being the culprit. [4]
After strong start and leading for over 200 meters she placed 8th in the 400m freestyle final of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with a finishing time of 4’11″26. The 1st place finisher was Rebecca Adlington from Great Britain finishing 4:03.22, and Federica Pellegrini finished 5th at 4:04.56. She finished 7th in the 100m backstroke final.
Career Best Times
* 200 Free-1.55.52 (WR)
* 400 Free-4:02.13 (2nd fastest swimmer ever)
* 800 Free-8:18.80 (3rd fastest swimmer ever)
* 100 Back-59.50 (6th fastest swimmer ever)
* 200 Back-2:06.64 (4th fastest swimmer ever)
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