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Team GB swimmer James Wilby has said the Paris Olympics will feel like his first Games.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 30-year-old breaststroker competed at the delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and finished sixth and fifth, respectively, in the 100m and 200m breaststroke finals and won silver in the 100m medley.<\/p>\n
However, those Games were staged behind closed doors because of ongoing Covid-19 restrictions in Japan, and Wilby is now looking forward to a new experience.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s going to feel massively different. It’s almost like a first Olympics for me in a sense,” he told BBC Radio York.<\/a><\/p>\n “There are some people on the team who are doing their third Games. They had the experience of Rio in 2016, which was a huge event and celebration.<\/p>\n “I’m sure the Japanese had huge ambitions for Tokyo, but it was numbed down and it was challenging. We had testing procedures to follow and strict abilities in terms of where we were able to go, and we were out straight after we’d finished competing.<\/p>\n “I’m so excited to experience the athletes’ village and going to see fellow Team GB athletes competing.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n