By Retta Race on SwimSwam
Having reaped just two medals at this year’s World Championships, Great Britain may not have had the type of World Championships it was hoping for in Singapore. However, the nation’s short of expectations performance as a whole is not deterring one of its most decorated Olympians of all time.
Duncan Scott, an eight-time Olympic medalist, recently spoke to The Herald about how he’s nowhere near calling time on his career at 28 years of age. The dynamo also conveyed how his 4x200m free relay teammate Tom Dean‘s arrival at the University of Stirling will only help spur on even faster swimming when all is said and done.
“I’m definitely ready to try and do a few things that I’ve not done in my career yet – like win an individual Olympic gold medal,” Scott said, already owning an impressive individual Olympic resume which includes 200m free silver and 200m IM silver from Tokyo as well as 200m IM silver from Paris.
“There’s that feeling of always the bridesmaid never the bride with the Olympic silvers,” he commented.
Regarding the fact that he appears ageless, still producing world-class performances, Scott said, “The reality is this could be my last Olympic cycle but despite being 28, I still feel like I’m mid-20s.
“I feel like I’m competing better than I ever have done and some of the training sessions I’m doing are better than I’ve ever done before so that gives me that hunger to go out and achieve things that I’ve not done yet.
“My belief is as strong as ever – whether that’s slightly delusional or not I don’t know but I actually think a bit of delusion can be a good thing.” (The Herald)
We reported how Dean, the men’s 200m free victor from Tokyo and prolific 4x200m free relay ace, was migrating from his longtime training base of Bath to join Scott, Kathleen Dawson, Angharad Evans, Jack McMillan and others at Stirling as of this past August.
Scott is looking forward to the duo pushing themselves in practice and potentially building one another up to heights yet to be achieved.
“Tom and I do literally all the same events 100 and 200 free and the 200 IM but we get on really well,” said Scott.
“You see what he’s achieved in his career, and his ceiling in terms of performance is ridiculously high so it’s a big deal that he’s coming to Stirling. It’s a very, very good training group we’ve got at Stirling now and Deano’s arrival will be such a positive.
“Training will be very competitive and 100 percent, I don’t want to get beaten. I think every athlete feels like that – if you don’t have that hunger and determination then why are you in the sport? So whoever you’re training against, it’s really important to have that competitive edge and that’s why I love being at Stirling because there’s so many guys who are willing to put themselves on the line. And they’ll let you know if they beat you, which is really good accountability for myself.” (The Herald)
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