Duncan Scott shines for Scotland again with 200m individual medley gold

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There are generals from banana republics with fewer medals on their chests than Duncan Scott. And when the pressure was highest at a home Commonwealth Games, the most decorated Scottish athlete of all time delivered again. On paper it looked like a stacked men’s 200m individual medley, with world and Olympic champions, including New Zealander Lewis Clareburt and England’s Tom Dean, lurking with intent. But Scott had other ideas. After a strong butterfly, the 29-year-old applied the squeeze on the backstroke and breaststroke and then delivered the coup de grace on the freestyle to take gold in 1min 56.38sec, nearly half a second clear of Clareburt, who took silver, with…

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