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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Damian Spellman

Matt Richards: I’ve re-run Olympic final ‘more times than I could count’

Matt Richards is targeting gold in Singapore after collecting silver in Paris (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Archive)

Matt Richards has admitted he has re-run the 200 metres freestyle final at the Paris Olympics in his head “many, many, many times” after missing out on a gold medal by a fraction of a second.

The 22-year-old Briton won silver after finishing 0.02 seconds behind Romanian teenager David Popovici and, while that represented a major achievement, he still cannot help but reflect upon what might have been.

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