One final appearance on BBC News (UK)’ Sportsday programme before the show sadly ends next week 😔 It has been a vital place to showcase underserved sports & it was so important to me personally to profile swimming + diving one last time, ahead of the Worlds here in Singapore ✌️

🚨 BRITISH RECORD ALERT 🚨 Men’s 4x00 free 3:10.76

Welshman Matt Richards has qualified for the men's 200m freestyle semi-finals at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore 🏊‍♂️ The semi final will be underway at 13:05⏰ #BBCSwimming

Matt Richards seventh through to the 100 free semis in 47.89, the 8th swiftest of his career. That followed the 200 free where the Olympic silver medallist missed the final. Matt Richards MBE greeted the outcome of his 100 prelim with a big smile. #AQUASingapore25 #AQUASingapore2025

Huge congratulations to Matt Richards on qualifying for the 100m freestyle final at the World Aquatics Championships! 🎉👏 The 100m final will take place tomorrow afternoon 🏊‍♂️ Good luck Matt! 📅 Full schedule 👉 worldaquatics.com/schedule 📺 Watch live via Aquatics GB and

👀 Matt's mission Richards chases 100m World Champs redemption after 200m blow 🏊🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👇👇👇 ✍🏻 Liz Byrnes dragonsports.co.uk/news/wales-oly…

7⃣th in the world for Emily Richards after another sub-2:08 Women's 200m Butterfly swim on the world stage 🌏👏 Freya Anderson called up to the Women's 100m Freestyle semi-final as the first reserve places 16th overall Watch free on AquaticsGB.com/live & Eurovision Sport 📲

Sporting my custom-made Speedo goggles from Paris 2024 this morning, in the rooftop hotel pool in #Singapore Can’t wait to watch the Aquatics GB swimmers in the pool tonight World Aquatics

What an afternoon we have in store… Your schedule for Friday in Singapore 😍 Watch free on AquaticsGB.com/live and Eurovision Sport 📲🇬🇧

An Englishman, an Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman walk into a swimming pool… And walk out World Champions… AGAIN!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 🥇🥇🥇🥇

All four guys swam brilliantly. Great start from Matt, super solid for James in the engine room, Jack held his nerve when everyone went off like rockets and once again Duncan is THE relay man on the anchor and drops his 6th 1:43 split.

When your anchor’s got that closing power 💥 Great Britain’s golden finish was written in their reactions 🇬🇧✨ Also a small cameo from 👀🇦🇺 #AQUASingapore25 #Swimming

When we walked into the arena tonight they gave us the bands for tonight’s tickets….. I said to Amanda Richards “what colour would you call that?” “Gold” was the simple reply!! #MeantToBe #WorldChampions #AGAIN 🥇🌍🇬🇧

On 🔝 of the world 🥇🌍 Matt Richards, James Guy, Jack McMillan and Duncan Scott bank Men's 4x200m Freestyle gold on the global stage, with Evan Jones and Tom Dean playing their vital part in the heat 🤝🇬🇧

Matt Richards takes the win at the World Championships as part of the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay 🥇

Delivering 🥇 time after TIME 🙌 🇬🇧 men’s 4x200m freestyle team claim Britain’s first medal of the pool swimming programme with a stunning victory on Friday evening here in Singapore. “We’re so proud. Delivering after the Olympics, with a huge target on our backs takes a lot.”

Great Britain are world champions of the 4x200m men’s relay! 👑🇬🇧 #Swimming #AQUASingapore25

Relay thriller delivers gold in the pool | Swimming News | Aquatics GB 👏🏻 aquaticsgb.com/news/latest-sw…

GB Men’s 4x200 Free at world champs and Olympics since 2015: 🥇🥈🥇➖🥇🥉🥇➖🥇🥇 They’ve won 60% of the available gold medals in that period 🤯 - incredible consistency

👀 Matt finish Richards powers GB relay to gold 🏊🏻‍♂️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏊🏻‍♂️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👇👇 #WorldAquaticsChampionships dragonsports.co.uk/news/matt-rich…