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At the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Olympic champions Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand won gold medals in both the 400-meter individual medley and the women’s medley.

With a championship record of 4 minutes 25.78 seconds, McIntosh, a teenager, finished more than seven seconds clear of Jenna Forrester on Sunday, her fourth gold medal of the week.

The 18-year-old won gold on Saturday in the 400-meter freestyle, 200-meter butterfly, and 200-meter medley, and bronze in the 800-meter freestyle.

At her first Olympics last summer, McIntosh, who holds world records for the 200- and 400-meter medley and the 400-meter freestyle, won three gold medals and a silver.

Frenchman Marchand performed sluggishly in the 400-meter medley heats, but he came back to win gold in 4:14: 73, almost four seconds ahead of Tomoyuki Matsushita, who won silver.

The Paris Games hero, age 23, was just two seconds away from breaking the 400-meter world record he set at the 2023 World Championships when he won gold in the men’s 200-meter individual medley on Thursday.

The British team’s week was ended by Max Litchfield’s seventh place finish.

Marchand later helped France win the medal in the men’s 4x100m medley relay, placing sixth overall.

The GB quartet finished last in the women’s 4x100m medley relay, setting a new world record for the time of 3:49.34.

Ahmed Jaouadi, 20, won gold in the men’s 1500-meter freestyle earlier this week, adding to his 800-meter victory.

Women’s 50-meter freestyle champion Meg Harris won, while Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte held on to her 50-meter breaststroke record of 29.55.

Kliment Kolesnikov won gold in the men’s 50-meter backstroke with a time of 23: 68, breaking his previous record of three years.

Britain managed to escape a challenging week in Singapore, winning only five medals and one gold in the men’s 4x200m freestyle.

Although Chris Spice, the camp’s performance director, feels that illness shouldn’t be used as an excuse.

We don’t try to dwell on that,” the company says. You can only see some of the people who might have been affected by that in the last few days, he told BBC Sport.

We’ve tried to reduce the possibility of anything moving between teams by not staying close to other teams.

However, you’re in a heated environment with close friends and family members. It’s only natural that there will be illness. That is the essence. We simply try to get on with it by putting our heads down.

Spice believes that a lot has changed in Aquatics GB’s environment and the workings of the team, which has contributed to a lackluster week.

“We had two British records last year, compared to three now.” Things aren’t bad, he continued, “under the bonnet.”

We believe our junior class has had the best crop in the last four or five years. Hopefully, those two things will come together as we approach the LA [2028 Olympic Games] and produce some results.

“We have eight people competing for their first World Championships, and we have a very young team.” There are many newcomers and a lot of learning is happening.

We left two or three medals on the table because there were opportunities that were missed this week.

Men’s 50-meter freestyle silver-bean Proud

Women’s 3m synchronized diving team Silver-Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen

Men’s 3m synchronized diving champions Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding

After receiving a one-game suspension for a red card against Spain on Saturday, Flanker Marlie Packer will not miss England’s home Women’s Rugby World Cup debut.

In the Red Roses’ 1997-7 World Cup warm-up game against Leicester, the 35-year-old was dismissed for a clumsy clearout that caught full-back Claudia Pena’s leg.

Before England’s World Cup opener against the United States in Sunderland on August 22, Packer is forced to miss their final warm-up game against France on Saturday due to the ban.

Packer’s first cap success since being replaced by Zoe Aldcroft in January was with Spain.

She is one of head coach John Mitchell’s vice-captains and led the Red Roses to two Six Nations Grand Slam victories in 2023 and 2024.

Mitchell’s side have won 26 games and are favorites to win the 2022 World Cup, their last defeat coming in a final game against New Zealand.

Packer, who won England’s World Cup title in 2014, is still facing difficult opponents to start the first round of the competition.

James Maddison’s injury, according to Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank, “looks bad” in the pre-season game against Newcastle on Sunday.

The 28-year-old former Leicester City player pulled the ball away in the first half of Spurs’ 1-1 draw with the Magpies.

While team-mate Son Heung-min was clearly emotional as he made his final appearance for the club, the England international appeared clearly in pain and was forced to be stretchered off the field of play.

According to Frank, Maddison likely injured the same knee that he did last season when he didn’t make the Europa League final against Manchester United.

“Sometimes, in life and football, things can be both beautiful and brutal,” Frank said.

“That’s what we have today,” the statement read. It appears to have been a bad injury with Madders, followed by unbelievable scenes for Son from his team-mates and the players’ respect at Newcastle.

We’re pretty certain that it was his previous knee.

Within the first four minutes of their first meeting in Seoul, South Korea, Wales forward Brennan Johnson scored the winning goal.

Ieuan Evans, the chairman of the Welsh national team, has urged Jac Morgan’s leading compatriots to prepare for the tour to New Zealand in 2029.

Morgan won two caps off the bench as Andy Farrell’s side defeated Australia 2-1. He was one of only two Welshmen to make the touring squad.

In the second Test match of the tour, he scored a try and was the subject of the most contentious exchange.

Hugo Keenan’s winning second-Test try was ruled legal due to Morgan’s clearout on Carlo Tizzano at a ruck.

Although the controversy surrounding that incident has persisted, Evans wants Morgan’s home-based impact to inspire inspiration.

Players must say, “OK, I want a piece of the action,” according to the saying. In four years, “I want to play in New Zealand,” said former Wales and Lions wing Evans.

Tomos Williams, the former Gloucester scrum-half, was named in Farrell’s original squad despite suffering a hamstring injury in the opening game of Australia.

The Ospreys star was not present for the first Test, but after joining the action in Melbourne’s second, crucial role, sealed the series.

You haven’t got a soul, Evans said, “Quite frankly, if you weren’t caught by the drama of that second Test at the MCG.”

That’s what a sporting legacy is all about, because it’s supposed to be done at a venue like the MCG.

If I’d been wearing a lifestyle watch at the time, it probably advised me to visit the emergency room very quickly.

Evans claims a thorough analysis of the past few weeks will be conducted despite the absence of any changes to the popular touring schedules of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

The Lions are willing to improve the tour format, which was largely unpopular in Australia prior to the Test series.

Evidently, New Zealand has its own set of rules for touring. However, the players had a great time, and we’ll make sure that’s the case because you need to keep up the goodwill.

You can’t rely on it because hubris eventually wins over everyone. Everyone will adore this for all eternity, so it’s not just a blip.