The French duo, who will contest the men’s synchronised 3m springboard on Friday 2 August, are aiming to become the first French men to attain a place on an Olympic diving podium.

France’s only previous Olympic medal in the sport was a silver by women’s 3m springboard diver Mady Moreau at the Helsinki 1952 Games.

“The first dream is to win a medal and do that for every person in France who watches us hopefully do the best competition possible at the Olympics,” Bouyer said.

“The second (dream) for me and Alexis, too, is that we want to grow the diving family with small clubs, big clubs and new pools, because right now in France it (diving) is not very popular."

In addition to the new Olympic Aquatics Centre, one of two permanent sports venues created for Paris 2024, a diving facility in the eastern suburbs of the French capital also recently reopened to the public.

“We have been waiting for this for maybe 50 years, so it’s good for French diving,” Jandard said. We also want to inspire the kids watching, and now we hope that if kids see us and want to join us, they now have facilities that will allow them to do this.”

Bouyer added: “We have big divers, we now have big facilities, so we have a lot of good things to help us work and compete with other international athletes.”

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Bouyer and Jandard will be among the medal contenders in a stacked men’s synchronised 3m springboard event that includes China’s reigning world champions Wang Zongyuan and Long Daoyi.

Jack Laugher, who won gold for Great Britain at Rio 2016 with Chris Mears, is also in the event with new partner Anthony Harding.

 Two other duos – Lorenzo Marsaglia and Giovanni Tocci of Italy, and Adrian Abadia and Nicolas Garcia Boissier of Spain – have been on the podium at major events since the last Olympic Games.

Wang, countryman Xie Siyi and Laugher are also expected to be in contention for individual honours in men’s 3m springboard, which begins on Tuesday 6 August.

This event will also feature Yona Knight-Wisdom, who in 2016 became the first male diver from Jamaica to qualify for the Olympic Games. He also competed at Tokyo 2020.

“It feels great not only to be back at an Olympic Games, but back at a normal Olympic Games where my friends and family can come to watch,” the 29-year-old, who will retire after Paris 2024, said.

“Not many people get to become Olympians in the first place, definitely not three-time Olympians—which is unbelievable and beyond what I had dreamed of. I can’t wait for it to begin.”

In the men’s 10m platform synchro, Yang Hao and Lian Junjie of China claimed gold.