“Félix and Alexis Lebrun, it's the bespectacled friend you have in your class, the guy who looks like nothing”: Patrick Montel's daring comparison

During a program retracing the year 2024, and therefore the exploits of the Lebrun brothers at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the former France Télévisions journalist Patrick Montel used a somewhat daring comparison to describe the two prodigies of French table tennis.

Félix and Alexis Lebrun are likely to remember this year 2024 for a very long time, when they exploded in the eyes of all, with an individual bronze medal for one at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, then another shared with his big brother, during the team event.

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Before starting a new season at a crazy pace in 2025, with the big event of the Table Tennis World Championships next May in Qatar, Alexis and Félix Lebrun were able to rest for a few days during the end-of-year holidays.

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During which they may have come across the show broadcast on M6, “2024: an exceptional year”, looking back at the best moments of the past year and giving pride of place to the Olympic Games… And therefore to the Lebrun brothers.

“This guy, who looks like nothing, is just a terror at table tennis”

A former athletics journalist for France Télévisions, Patrick Montel was asked about the rise of the two blond heads in the hearts of the French public. Using a comparison that is, to say the least, daring.

“I wondered why this fervor was possible in a discipline even more unknown than swimming, he explains. And I understood. Félix and Alexis, it's the bespectacled friend you have in your class. The guy who looks like nothing.”

“And you say to yourself, this guy, I hope he's doing well in math, because for the rest it's going to be complicated in his life, he continues. Well this guy, who looks like nothing, is just a terror at table tennis and he's just someone who can stir up crowds because the crowd identifies with him.”