The Scot won 200m breaststroke gold in Montreal in 1976 as well as two ... for four years and the first British man to win Olympic gold in the pool in 68 years he retired one month after the ...

The standard Olympic pool is 50 meters long, or approximately 164 feet - around the same width as a football field. It should be said that there is some leeway given for touch pads at the starting ...