Anne Hidalgo, a "mother so proud" of her son after his sporting feat

Arthur Germain has won his bet: to swim across the English Channel. After 9 hours and 47 minutes, the 16-year-old boy finally traveled the 51 kilometers between France and England. Tuesday, July 24, the hero of the day shared the good news on social networks. He thus became the youngest Frenchman to complete this crossing, a real sporting feat. A pride for his family and especially for his mother, Anne Hidalgo. The mayor of Paris did not hide his joy on social networks: "He did it, she wrote. Congratulations to my son Arthur! The youngest Frenchman to swim across the English Channel. A sporting and humanitarian challenge. I am a mother so proud !!!!

The son of former MP Jean-Marc Germain left Dover in England very early in the morning before reaching the French coast at 7:30 pm. For this sporting challenge, the young man had launched an online collection, in order to finance this project but also to raise funds for Afrique Pleine d'Avenir, an NGO working for access to education in sub-Saharan Africa. [19659004] Interviewed at the microphone of RMC Sport Arthur German said he was relieved to have succeeded in this challenge: "It was a little hard from six and a half hours of racing because I had a tendonitis in the left arm (…) But when I arrived, it was a year of training which was concretized .

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