Golden Guy only getting better with age after Paris 2024 triumph

James Guy insists he is only getting better with age after sparking Team GB’s first gold medal in the swimming pool in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay.

The Bury swimmer set a new personal best in the morning heat and narrowly avoided doing so again in the final, as he led Tom Dean, Matt Richards, and Duncan Scott to a successful defence of the gold they won in Tokyo.

The awesome foursome became the first Team GB relay squad to ever win back-to-back Olympic golds.

Guy’s previous personal best was set in 2015 and the 28-year-old says there is still plenty of life in him yet after adding a third gold to two relay titles he won in Japan.

“To go 1:45:00 twice in the same day was so cool,” he said.

“In the morning, I was quicker but to go a personal best at my age does not happen very often and just shows the kind of times to come.

“I actually think winning those two golds in Tokyo was the one for me. It was the one because I was missing an Olympic gold.

“This will go in the display cabinet. To win six Olympic medals now, three golds, is pretty special. And it’s definitely not over."

Guy now has six Olympic medals, with three silvers to go alongside those three golds.

The 2015 200m world champion swam the first leg and took an early lead at the 100m mark. He clocked 1:45.09 for his split for a lead of 0.46s over USA’s Luke Hobson.

However, Dean, who swam the second leg, was quickly caught, and turned at the 150m mark down in fourth position. But he timed his race perfectly and came roaring back down the final 50m to hand Richards a half-second lead.

Richards maintained that half-second advantage and let Scott do the rest.

Guy also admitted it was special to do this in front of family and friends, something he was denied in