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Matt Richards: 'The boy rocked up to swim'
After an amazing 200m freestyle final, swimmer Matt Richards takes home the silver medal.
Matt Richards missed out on Olympic gold by 0.02 seconds but took silver in a thrilling 200m freestyle final in Paris.
Out in lane one after qualifying seventh fastest, Richards, 21, came agonisingly close as Romania's rising star David Popovici, 19, touched first to win gold by a fingertip.
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