{"id":593350,"date":"2024-07-31T03:36:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T10:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=593350"},"modified":"2024-07-31T04:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T11:32:49","slug":"paris-olympics-duncan-scott-the-skinnier-version-of-michael-phelps-rebuffs-sir-chris-hoy-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-duncan-scott-the-skinnier-version-of-michael-phelps-rebuffs-sir-chris-hoy-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics: Duncan Scott &#8211; &#8220;The Skinnier Version Of Michael Phelps&#8221; &#8211; Rebuffs Sir Chris Hoy Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Paris Olympics: Duncan Scott &#8211; &#8220;The Skinnier Version Of Michael Phelps&#8221; &#8211; Rebuffs Sir Chris Hoy Comparisons<\/h4>\n<p><strong>James Guy<\/strong> once described <strong>Duncan Scott<\/strong> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/duncan-scott-wins-200-free-for-third-title-of-meet-as-james-guy-hails-a-skinnier-version-of-michael-phelps\/\">\u201ca skinnier version of Michael Phelps.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Dean<\/strong> said he\u2019s \u201cup there with your Phelps and your (Ryan) Lochtes and your (Kosuke) Haginos,&#8221; speaking to the combination of quality and versatility.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Scott told Swimming World:\u00a0\u201cTo be honest, I would never compare myself to him (Michael Phelps). I don\u2019t think too much of things like that \u2013 I am way off what he has ever achieved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has transcended swimming in British circles and is now being spoken of in the same breath as cyclist <strong>Sir Chris Hoy<\/strong> with the pair third all-time among British Olympic medallists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_593288\" style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593288\" data-attachment-id=\"593288\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-4-finals-great-britain-retain-mens-4x200-free-title-with-143-anchor-by-duncan-scott\/paris-2024-olympic-games-185\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240730_GSca_SG45400.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Giorgio Scala \\\/ Deepbluemedia \\\/ Insidefoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Tom Dean, Matthew Richards, James Guy and Duncan Scott of Great Britain celebrate after winning the gold medal in the swimming 4x200m Freestyle Men Final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Defense Arena in Paris (France), July 30, 2024.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1722371239&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Giorgio Scala \\\/ Deepbluemedia \\\/ Insidefoto&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;600&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Paris 2024 Olympic Games&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Paris 2024 Olympic Games\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tom Dean, Matthew Richards, James Guy and Duncan Scott of Great Britain celebrate after winning the gold medal in the swimming 4x200m Freestyle Men Final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Defense Arena in Paris (France), July 30, 2024.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240730_GSca_SG45400-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240730_GSca_SG45400-1024x683.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-593288\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240730_GSca_SG45400-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"229\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-593288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Dean, Matthew Richards, Duncan Scott and James Guy: Photo courtesy: Deepbluemedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-4-finals-great-britain-retain-mens-4x200-free-title-with-143-anchor-by-duncan-scott\/\/\">By anchoring Great Britain\u2019s 4&#215;200 free relay squad to gold<\/a> with a scorching split of 1:43:95, the University of Stirling swimmer elevated himself alongside fellow Scot Hoy with the duo each a seven-time medallist.<\/p>\n<p>Hoy won six golds and one silver across four Olympics between Sydney 2000 and London 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Scott has two golds and five silvers across Rio 2016, Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024 with the 200IM to come at La Defense Arena, in which he won silver in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, Scott and Hoy are eclipsed in the British all-time rankings by only cycling pair <strong>Jason Kenny<\/strong>, with nine medals, and <strong>Bradley Wiggins<\/strong>, who has made eight trips to the Olympic rostrum.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, though, was all customary modesty after anchoring the Team GB relay to their first swimming gold of Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m nowhere near the level of athlete Chris Hoy has been,\u201d he said. \u201cThat&#8217;s taking away from what he&#8217;s achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve had so many medals won by relay teammates, and I cannot thank them enough for what they do and how much they&#8217;ve done. And they put me in a phenomenal position there, like they always do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom medley relays with (Adam) Peaty and Jimmy (James Guy) and Luke Greenbank in the past 4x200s. I&#8217;ve been incredibly fortunate with what I&#8217;ve been able to have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my third Olympic games, but I don&#8217;t think I should ever be compared to Sir Chris Hoy. It&#8217;s pretty cool in terms of numbers, but he&#8217;s got quite a few better colours than I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guy, though, was having none of it, grinning: \u201cDamn right, of course. Fellow Scotsman, of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuncan is very, very versatile. We first raced when we were 16 and 15. He is an incredible athlete. He is so process orientated and very level-headed. Duncan is a brilliant athlete and I think he can do some danger in the 200IM in a few days\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_593250\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593250\" data-attachment-id=\"593250\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-4-finals-great-britain-retain-mens-4x200-free-title-with-143-anchor-by-duncan-scott\/paris-2024-olympic-games-168\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_Maso_MA71383.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Andrea Masini \\\/ Deepbluemedia \\\/ Insidefoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Duncan Scott of Great Britain competes in the swimming 200m Freestyle Men Heats during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Defense Arena in Paris (France), July 28, 2024.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1722157790&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Andrea Masini \\\/ Deepbluemedia \\\/ Insidefoto&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;390&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Paris 2024 Olympic Games&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Paris 2024 Olympic Games\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Duncan Scott of Great Britain competes in the swimming 200m Freestyle Men Heats during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Defense Arena in Paris (France), July 28, 2024.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_Maso_MA71383-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_Maso_MA71383-1024x683.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-593250\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_Maso_MA71383-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"226\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-593250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duncan Scott: Photo courtesy: Deepbluemedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Scott made his World Championship debut at <strong>Kazan 2015<\/strong> where Guy won the individual 200 free title ahead of <strong>Sun Yang<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Biedermann<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The young Scot swam the prelims of the 4&#215;2, anchoring the GB quartet in 1:48.35 as they progressed third.<\/p>\n<p>He was then replaced for the final by Guy who split 1:44.74 to propel the squad to gold.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, they&#8217;ve come together to win a further two world golds and a bronze as well as two Olympic titles and silver at Rio 2016.<\/p>\n<p>On an individual basis, he&#8217;s won Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth medals across 100 and 200 free, 200IM and 200m butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>As notable as his versatility is Scott&#8217;s modesty and humility, something noted by many teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Dean told Swimming World: \u201cBecause he is so modest I don\u2019t think people quite realise how incredible an athlete he is and I think we are very fortunate to be not only racing at the same time but from the same country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guy concurred, adding:\u00a0\u201cHe is amazing: what he generates from his body is fantastic and without him British swimming would be lost. He is one of the backbones of British swimming so really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Olympics: Duncan Scott &#8211; &#8220;The Skinnier Version Of Michael Phelps&#8221; &#8211; Rebuffs Sir Chris Hoy Comparisons James Guy once described Duncan Scott as \u201ca skinnier version of Michael Phelps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":502523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122074,10],"tags":[70616,26806,134716,17020,32014,134715,130998,6302,57812,52208,134714,122205,66654],"class_list":["post-593350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","category-world","tag-2024-olympic-games-coverage-paris","tag-adam-peaty","tag-bradley-wiggins","tag-duncan-scott","tag-james-guy","tag-jason-kenny","tag-kazan-2015","tag-michael-phelps","tag-paris-2024","tag-rio-2016","tag-sir-chris-hoy","tag-tokyo-2021","tag-tom-dean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Duncan Scott Rebuffs Sir Chris Hoy Comparisons<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Duncan Scott has rebuffed comparisons with cycling great Sir Chris Hoy after joining his fellow Scot in the all-time Olympic medal rankings.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-duncan-scott-the-skinnier-version-of-michael-phelps-rebuffs-sir-chris-hoy-comparisons\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paris Olympics: Duncan Scott - &quot;The Skinnier Version Of Michael Phelps&quot; 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