M4x200m Free: Orange Squash For The Rest, Gold For the Dutch in 7:07.8

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European Championships

London, Day 6

The battle was keen, the Dutch came out on top for gold, the silver and bronze to Belgium and Italy in the Orange squash as Sebastiaan Verschuren roared home. Take all continental and global racing ever at long-course championship level and you find something worth celebrating beyond the gold for The Netherlands: this is the first win in the 4x200m free ever.

The world champions, Britain, were unlikely contenders given the condition they race in at this home meet – and so it proved: 7:10.43 for 6th today. At a glance, there’s some 8sec loss of peak form to come, if you can lose something before you’ve had it. Suffice it to …

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