Tokyo Olympics: Team GB swimmer James Guy on training in lockdown, Caeleb Dressel and Sun Yang
Daily MailAs James Guy prepares to fight for Olympic medals this summer, he may think back to last year's first lockdown when he was competing with his mother for use of the garden swimming pool. Guy went into Rio 2016 as the 200m free world champion but was just 0.2s off a medal The dejected Guy needed to pick himself off the floor in time for the 4x200m freestyle relay the following day - but this time another family member came to the swimmer's rescue. Guy will not be in the 200m freestyle in Tokyo because Duncan Scott and Tom Dean are too good Both Scott and Dean are likely to compete with one another for the 200m freestyle Olympic gold medal, which is currently held by Chinese athlete Sun Yang - who saw an eight-year ban handed to him in February 2020 for failing a doping drugs test rejected by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. Guy backed Duncan Scott who refused to stand with Sun on the 2019 Worlds podium Guy's Tokyo playbook looks rather different to five years ago in Rio, even though will once again be part of Team GB's Olympic relay teams - including the 4x100 medley race which Britain are favourites for having won European and World Championship golds in recent years.
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