As the Olympic post-mortems and consequent funding negotiations begin, British Swimming has some serious questions to answer.
However, the assessment of the Scottish contribution is very different. Their official target was to achieve a first Scottish medal in the pool since Graeme Smith's in 1996 but when Hannah Miley – considered the favourite to produce said medal – was beaten in the her favourite event, the 400 metre individual medley, it looked as if the pressure was on.
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