Luca Hoek breaks down a wall in swimming with a stratospheric record and smells like a medal
There are swimmers who keep all the juice inside, whose talent only needs that day to come when someone or something uncorks it automatically. An emotion, a unique setting, an insurmountable challenge, or swimming alongside your idol in a European semifinal. And this last is what has happened to Luca Hoek (18 years old), the torpedo from Sitges, with a French mother and Dutch father, but born and raised by the Mediterranean Sea.