{"id":2516,"date":"2024-07-29T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympic-swimming-matt-richards-wins-silver-for-team-gb-as-duncan-scott-finishes-fourth\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:27:26","slug":"olympic-swimming-matt-richards-wins-silver-for-team-gb-as-duncan-scott-finishes-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympic-swimming-matt-richards-wins-silver-for-team-gb-as-duncan-scott-finishes-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic swimming: Matt Richards wins silver for Team GB as Duncan Scott finishes fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Matt Richards missed out on a stunning Olympic gold by two hundredths of a second but took a thrilling silver in the 200m freestyle in Paris.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Out in lane one after only qualifying seventh fastest, Richards, 21, came agonisingly close as Romania\u2019s rising star David Popovici, 19, touched first to win gold by a fingertip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The margin was the same as what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cxr2kx0lgnko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">separated Adam Peaty from gold on Sunday,<\/a> with just 0.15 seconds separating the top four in a sprint to the wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Hobson of the United States was 0.05 seconds behind Richards for bronze while GB\u2019s Duncan Scott narrowly missed out on the medals in fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So close was the margin, Richards &#8211; who won gold as part of the 4x200m relay in Tokyo &#8211; said he felt as though he had touched the wall first and taken gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI thought I had got it,\u201d he told the BBC. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t my best finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI can\u2019t be too disappointed. My first individual [event] at an Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cObviously two one hundredths off gold is excruciatingly frustrating. If anything it has added more fire to my belly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The medal was Team GB&#8217;s sixth of day three and takes their overall total to 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the previous race, Britain\u2019s Freya Colbert was fourth in the 400m medley, missing out on a medal by 0.74 seconds, as 17-year-old Canadian sensation Summer McIntosh won the first of what will surely be many Olympic golds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/c4ngkpvnqglo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Richards missed out on a stunning Olympic gold by two hundredths of a second but took a thrilling silver in the 200m freestyle in Paris. Out in lane one after only qualifying seventh fastest, Richards, 21, came agonisingly close as Romania\u2019s rising star David Popovici, 19, touched first to win gold by a fingertip. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}