Duncan Scott

Well, Maddie started to talk about the BBC, and BBC sportscaster Claire Balding's accidental double entendre at the Tokyo Games deserves a gold medal of its own.

Balding was interviewing British swimmers Tom Dean and Matthew Richards about their victory in the 4x200m freestyle relay with teammates James Guy and Duncan Scott when she said, Matt, You're 18 years old, it's your first Olympics, and you swam.

Honestly, your third leg was just phenomenal.

Balding was referring to Richard's swimming skills.

This includes 1,814 children and adults in the East Dunbartonshire programme.

Commonwealth Games gold medal winner Duncan Scott said, As an Olympic Swimming Ambassador, I am really proud of the growth this programme has achieved in the last eight years thanks to the hard-working commitment of our partner providers and the thousands of swimming teachers across the country teaching a vital life skill.

While not every child may be destined to become a Commonwealth or Olympic champion, everyone can learn to swim and this is essential to keep children safer in, on or around water.

Fellow Ambassador Tony Shaw, who won bronze at the Commonwealth Games, said, As someone who came through the Learn to Swim programme many years ago, I know the value of swimming as a life skill that keeps children and adults safer in water.

We're also running a competition this year, um, called Dear Duncan and To Toni.

So, uh, Duncan Scott and Toni Shaw are our Learn to Swim ambassadors for the framework and, and it's amazing to have them in those positions.

Uh, and this competition gives children that are a part of our national Learn to Swim framework delivered by our providers across the country an opportunity to write letters to Duncan and Toni and ask any questions that they have, share their, their Learn to Swim journey.

And we will short the, shortlist those letters, and the two winners of that competition will have an opportunity to hand deliver their letter to Toni and Duncan at the end of the month.

Okay, I'm 34.

I'm up against Duncan Scott on the other side from Scotland, who's one of the best ever.

And I'm like, I've got 25 odd seconds to sink or swim.

And obviously touching the wall was just like an incredible relief.

The, the other game features Donny Butt Cheeks trying to make the team as the 11th D-lineman.

What pl- I told you, Duncan Scott's people are wild.

These people are wild.

I really hate the fact that Belichick is going out this [laughs] way as well.

You know, makes that a little bit more comfortable as well.

But I, I guess going to the kinda first day of competition, the first, first sort of event we were involved in, the first member of the team to be selected, and the first gold medal for Scotland at the games was Duncan Scott in a games record in the 200 meter individual medley.

Do you feel that was almost written in the stars in a, in a, a little way, you know, sort of 12 years on from him making his international debut in, in the very same pool for Scotland as well?

Yes.

So yeah, good job.

And that was obviously the final event, but I deliberately didn't mention this other relay 'cause I thought for me it was actually probably my personal highlight of, of the games and the one that I enjoyed watching most, and it was the, the mixed four by one medley relay.

Just a fantastic race and, you know, one that again, l- we've sort of discussed throughout the podcast that, you know, it can go either way sometimes, but this went our way on this occasion, and Duncan Scott coming home on the anchor leg to, to win bronze for Scotland in, in this relay was fantastic.

After Matt Ward had led off and Angharad and Keanna had put in some excellent legs as well.

We've got Nowacki and Angharad.

Fly, that's probably where we're a little bit weak on the men, but you could even still throw a Duncan or a Mildred in and for, for the men and, um, for the women you've got, um, Keanna McInnes now and even, um, Emily Richards who she was in the final.

She actually was fastest qualifier going into the final but unfortunately just got touched out of the medals.

But still, going a 207 was a very good time for her.

We get on the podium and then once you, once you're there or thereabouts, you just don't know because people can drop ridiculous times.

I mean, you look at the men's two, uh, 200 free relay splits of all time.

And bear in mind, Britain's British record for 200 free is when Tom won in Tokyo going a 144.2 and Duncan also going a 144.2, just a few one hundredths behind.

But we've got something like nine swims sub 144 in, in, uh, 200 free relays for men.