Richards helps GB relay team win first swimming gold

Great Britain retained their Olympic 4x200m freestyle relay title to secure the team's first swimming gold in Paris.

After Adam Peaty and Matt Richards came agonisingly close with silvers, the same quartet that won in Tokyo - Richards, James Guy, Tom Dean and Duncan Scott - reunited to win in the cauldron of La Defense Arena.

They had a slender lead going into the final leg but Scott, who was a cruel fourth in the individual event 24 hours earlier, brought the team home to win by a relatively comfortable 1.35 seconds.

As the 27-year-old came down the final length, his fellow Scot Andy Murray prolonged his tennis career with another remarkable doubles victory in a special few moments for Team GB in Paris.

Victory in the pool made this the first time a British relay quartet has retained an Olympic title in swimming or athletics.

The gold is their fourth of the Games and takes their total to 12.

Englishman Kieran Bird and Jack McMillan, from Northern Ireland, will also receive medals having filled in for Richards and Scott in the morning heats.