Duncan Scott wanted Olympic 200m freestyle gold. But he was left dazed and distraught in Paris.
Duncan Scott is edged into fourth place in the men's 200m freestyle final as British team-mate Matt Richards claims silverDuncan Scott was still dripping as he slid stealthily past a steward and disappeared down a staircase and out of view.
Having been fourth to reach the wall in the 200m freestyle on Monday, the Team GB swimmer was the first out of the water. The look on his face was part disbelief, part distraught.After silver in this event in the Tokyo Games, the wee boy from Alloa was going to be the big man in Paris. David Popovici's winning time was well within his purview, given Scott's one minute 44:87 seconds here was 0.61 slower than the one that earned him silver in 2021."I don't really know what to say," Scott said. "Fourth is a horrible place to come. Several hundredths of a second away from winning a medal, or even better.
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