Hey everyone, welcome back. Now, with the Olympics underway, I'm releasing a conversation with one of Team GB's top medal hopes, swimmer Duncan Scott. Now, Duncan made history after winning four medals. That's more than any other British athlete at a single Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, simultaneously becoming Great Britain's most decorated swimmer

in Olympic history in the process. And big things are expected of him by himself and others

heading into Paris 2024. Now, I was fortunate after interviewed Duncan earlier this year. I did a bit of work with Team GB partnering with Nat West.

And so I thought he was such a sound bloke that I wanted to re-record a chat with him about the lessons he's learned, including setting boundaries, the power of consistency and accountability, as well as our love of Leamack and tennis.

So enjoy.

Duncan, it's so nice to see you. How are you?

Very well. Thanks yourself.

Yeah, I'm really good. So I had the pleasure of speaking to you for a TeamGB event earlier this year.

And I really enjoyed our chat.

So I'm very grateful, first of all, that you've dug time out of what

is such an important period for you to have another chat with me. So first of all, thank you.

No worries at all. Yeah. No, it's all starting to heat up now, isn't it? Absolutely. So when we last

spoke, we realized that we had certain things in common. I'm not talking about your athletic

prowess, but there's a bit of Scottish heritage. I'm half Scottish hidden by my southern accent

tad. So we got that. Second of all, the tennis. So you obviously are one of the very best in the

world at swimming, but you were a decent tennis player as well back in the day, better than me as well. Maybe we should go find a court post Paris and see what happens. I am so up for that. Yeah, I don't know if I am. I'll need to get a bit of practicing. Yeah, I used to be all right. I mean, I don't want to say anything too much. I've played, I think it was maybe like under 13, under 14, some sort of Scotland camp. And I did play quite a lot, to be honest,

and it was maybe like under 13, under 14, some sort of Scotland camp. And I did play quite a lot, to be honest. And it was a sport that I love. And it's a sport that I still really enjoy watching a lot of. And I know that you're obviously a big tennis fan as well. Yeah. Remind me who you played with. So who was there when we were there, a guy called Vincent Gillespie, who I don't know if you'll know, but he was very good at that age.

Johnny O'Mara.

Johnny O'Mara, that was it, yes. He's played doubles. He's a very good doubles player now, actually. I love kind of being brought up through tennis as well. I think it's been a really good help out for me in swimming. In what way? Well, obviously not the hand-eye coordination.

It doesn't have too much effect.

But I think in terms of body coordination, it's been really helpful, not only in land, but in the pool, because obviously through swimming, you know, so much is moving at once. It could be on clay, for example, sliding for a ball and having a backhand, it could be a cross-court backhand that you're hitting back, or trying to dart to the net to return a drop shot.

And I think when you're doing this, you know, you need balance, precision, your mind's thinking as well. And I think within the pool, you know, if I'm doing a fast turn, you could be butterfly to backstroke, elements can change all the time. You know, my stroke count might be different. So I might be a little bit longer, a little bit shorter to the wall and then going underwater and having to deal with some of the parameters like that, I think some of the crossovers have been quite good, and then it's been quite nice as well. Anytime we do other sports, usually swimmers aren't great with hand-eye coordination, so I'm able to beat a lot of them at that, which is quite nice. Sounds like you subscribe to that idea of not necessarily specialising too early, but doing lots of different sports and then being able to take some bits from one into another. Yeah, I think that's great. I mean, I don't know what you think, but obviously you get these outliers like Rory and Tiger and plenty of other summers or others that have been amazing since they were a young age. But I think the more that you're able to do lots of different sports,

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