From garden pool to Olympic gold

BBC News

28 Jul 2021 0 shares 1 views

BBC News

Published 28 Jul 2021

Matt Richards' relay swim team almost broke the world record as they won gold in Tokyo.

I had to buy a paddling pool during lockdown and now I'm off to the Olympics

Matthew Richards went online and bought a "massive paddling pool" for his garden when he was locked down and couldn't train..

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