Swimming: Charlotte Bonnet will have to wait for the next French championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

To see Tokyo, the Nice native will have to perform well at the French Championships next June in Chartres, needing to beat a time of 1:57.28 in the final.

Indeed, despite her victory in the 200m freestyle final with a time of 1:56.77 at the Camille Muffat Golden Tour in Marseille this Sunday, the Nice native was fourteen hundredths of a second short of the qualifying standard (1:56.63).

“There is inevitably a little frustration not to make the time, but I can hardly be disappointed: it’s the third time in four months that I’m swimming in 1:56. The heart of this year is the Games. The goal is to be strong there,” Charlotte Bonnet stated after her race in comments collected by AFP. “And even if I swim in 1:56 or 1:57 all year, if I do 1:54 on the big day, that’s what counts.”