can they be gold and silver? yes! tom dean is olympic champion. britain has gone 1 2. can you believe that! dean beat his team mate by less than a tenth of a second. for scott it was bittersweet. but for british swimming it was extraordinary. this is dean s first olympics. back home in maidenhead they watched him reach for the wall. cheering as a child in london, dean watched from the stands. now he was top of the podium. amazing. it s amazing. i ve said it before. it shows the confidence in this event and how five team gb have come. i couldn t have asked for anything more. howfarjean how farjean gb have come. it s amazing. injanuary, dean had severe covid.
olympic history. what a moment in the pool this morning where, for the first time since 1908, two male british swimmers finished on the podium together. at his debut games, tom dean taking gold, and duncan scott silver in the 200m freestyle final. joe lynskey reports. it hasn t happened for 113 years. two british swimmers, one and two in an olympic final. for tom dean and duncan scott, this was the race where it all went right. nerves reallyjangling at the start of the men s 200 metres freestyle. as always, tom dean looks really good, closer to us. dean is just 21. he studies mechanical engineering and deferred two years of his course to train for these games. in the last 20 metres, it was worth it. can they be gold and silver? can they be gold and silver? yes! tom dean is olympic champion at the 200m freestyle and britain has gone one two. can you believe that? dean beat his team mate by less than a tenth of a second.
yes! tom dean is olympic champion at the 200m freestyle and britain has gone one two. can you believe that! ? dean beat his team mate by less than a tenth of a second. for scott it was bittersweet. but for british swimming it was extraordinary. this is dean s first olympics. back home in maidenhead they watched him reach for the wall. cheering. as a child in london, dean watched from the stands. now he was top of the podium. amazing. it s amazing. i ve said it before, to have two brits on the podium, going one two, it shows the dominance in this event and how far british swimming have come. i couldn t have asked for any more. it s amazing. injanuary, dean had severe covid. he struggled to walk up the stairs. now he is the first british man to win freestyle gold since 1908, the same year two gb swimmers last
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