The 27-year-old is up to third on the all-time list of Team GB medal-winners
draws him level with Sir Chris Hoy, the track cycling phenomenon who won six gold medals and a silver in a career spanning four
Scott was agonisingly close to a medal in Monday’s 200m freestyle final too. If he had swum as he did in the relay, he would have been even David Popovici and taken top spot. Then he would be answer the same questions about Bradley Wiggins, and probably be equally coy. Scott is only 27 and is driven by that hatful of near-miss silvers to press on. So many of these athletes barely count Tokyo, the Games that no one saw, and value Paris so highly because friends and family can be here.
The 22-year-old Marchand from Toulouse might as well have been built in a lab: his father Xavier was a world silver medalist in the medley and his mother won gold in the same event at the 1991 Mediterranean Games.
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