If Pellegrini is shipwrecked between flops and recriminations in Italy, there is a Pellerin who suddenly leapt to the shields in France. Same (or almost) surname, identical field of application, swimming, but diametrically opposite situations and moods after the outcome of the results in the London Olympic swimming pool: everything is known about Faith for better or for worse, much less than Fabrice Pellerin who only after the successes of the transalpine swimmers did he become a character, exalted by all the French media. It is he, 40 years old, Corsican from Ajaccio, who has raised Jean Bouin in Nice in the swimming pool since they were little more than teenagers, three jewels of transalpine swimming, all from Nice like Camille Muffat, Yannick Agnel, Clément Leffert and Charlotte Bonnet, who in London had their fill of medals: nine of which four golds (Muffat in the 400m freestyle, Agnel in the 200m and 4×100 freestyle, Leffert in the 4×400 freestyle), three silvers (Muffat in the 200m freestyle, Agnel and Leffert 4×200 freestyle) and two bronzes (Muffat and Bonnet in the 4×200 freestyle).
Pellerin has been the "maitre nageur" of the Olympic Nice Natation since 2000. Over the course of a dozen years, he was entrusted with a group of local boys who the master, day after day, shaped with his perfectionist rigor by applying the principles of kinesiology to swimming, the science in which he graduated studying the movements of the human body. Lessons after lessons, many kilometers of tub, Pellerin created Muffat, who has been under his care for over ten years. He forced Clement Leffert to leave water polo to devote himself exclusively to swimming. Since 2008 Pellerin has been grappling with another phenomenon, Yannick Agnel. His students say he is an authentic fluid engineer, so meticulous is his research in mastering the water to make them swim faster and faster.
Today his fame among professionals has gone beyond national borders. But already in recent months, given the performance of his students, other athletes from other countries had knocked on Pellerin's doors, with the aim of doing an internship in Nice in view of the Olympics. But Pellerin preferred to concentrate all his efforts on his boys, also because he doesn't like visibility nor marketing, just the opposite of another French swimming coach much more character and whimsical than him, that Philippe Lucas, to whose school Pellegrini also arrived some time ago, in her continuous migration in search of a teacher who would reassure her after the death of Castagnetti, the historic coach of Fede (who perhaps made a mistake in going to Paris and not to Nice ).
