Alain Bernard, Laure Manaudou, and Coralie Balmy in a group hug but who is that scary guy in the back?

It's not Jason Lezak! The headline for this French article at Pure People: "Coralie Balmy, en passe de prendre la place de... Laure Manaudou!" or Coralie Balmy, on the way to replace… Laure Manaudou!

This article sort of explains why and here is the Bablefish translation. Note, Babefish is not grammatically accurate:

"... More glamour, more powerful, more bankable and especially more… here: the swimmer Coralie Balmy has just carried out a good operation while becoming ambassadress of the Adidas mark. She joined the armada thus stars who carry already the colors of the mark to the three bands in the greatest sporting disciplines…

... Coralie Balmy is a sure value of tricolour swimming, and, therefore, a sure value… for the investors. It also presents the great interest… to continue its activity and the competition, while at the same time Laure Manaudou took a run out powder to try to regain a footing...."

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Coralie Balmy is dating Alain Bernard!

Nice catch, Alain! She looks very L.A. but without the pretension or the bottle blonde hair.

From Wiki: Coralie Balmy (born June 8, 1987 La Trinité) is a freestyle swimmer from France, who was born in Martinique. She won her first senior title at the European LC Championships 2008 in Eindhoven in the 4x200 relay freestyle. At the same Championships she won the silver medal in the 400 m freestyle with the time of 4:04.15, all-time fourth fastest behind Federica Pellegrini's world record. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she finished fourth in the 400m freestyle final. [Link]

Original source: Maly! :-) And to back Maly up, here is my credible French source: [Link]