He first laughed yellow, before smiling with full teeth. 20m from the wall, Maxime Grousset, 23, took the lead in the 100m freestyle final (NL), at the Hungarian Swimming World Championships on Wednesday, ahead of the young Romanian David Popovici and could have become the first Blue champion of the round trip world. But the final fight turned slightly in favor of the prodigy from Bucharest, 17, the first swimmer since 1973 and the American Jim Montgomery to succeed in the 100m NL and 200m NL double at the Worlds. For six small hundredths (47′’58 against 47′’64)…
