Scott 'hungry as ever' before GB Championships

Aquatics GB Swimming Championships

When: 15-20 April Where: London Aquatics Centre

Coverage: Each nighttime of nan championships including nan finals of each arena will beryllium disposable connected iPlayer, nan BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app from 18.45 BST.

Scottish swimmer Duncan Scott says he is "as quiet arsenic ever" arsenic he intends to build connected an already sparkling profession astatine nan Aquatics GB Swimming Championships.

Scott, 27, helped Great Britain triumph golden successful nan men's 4x200m freestyle relay and claimed metallic successful nan men's 200m individual medley astatine past year's Paris Olympics, taking his wide Olympic badge tally to eight.

Despite becoming Scotland's astir dressed up Olympian, alongside a raft of different awesome title medals, Scott is wished to further swell his silverware collection.

"I americium nan astir dressed up metallic medallist astatine nan Olympic games truthful I person had plentifulness of seconds and astir moments and that comes pinch a batch of information successful itself," Scott told BBC Scotland. "I americium arsenic quiet arsenic ever.

"On 1 manus I person achieved a batch and I americium really grateful for what I person been capable to do. Over my profession I person been capable to execute a really precocious level of occurrence for a agelong play of time, but connected nan different broadside I person fallen short truthful galore times.

"In immoderate ways you tin opportunity it is simply a affirmative because it has kept maine quiet for this full time, it allows maine to support pushing.

"I find that rather breathtaking arsenic well. There is truthful overmuch that I still want to do and execute successful nan athletics and deliberation that I americium tin of doing that arsenic well."

Scott, who is moving nether caller coach Ben Higson, will beryllium among nan prima attractions astatine nan Aquatics GB Swimming Championships which get nether measurement connected Tuesday.

Qualification places for this summer's World Championships successful Singapore are up for grabs, though nan unit is disconnected successful that respect for Scott, who has been pre-selected for nan 200m IM and nan 4x200m freestyle relay events.

The Glasgow-born swimmer is getting backmost up to velocity successful nan excavation aft taking 3 months disconnected astatine nan extremity of past year. It is simply a determination Scott believes tin only use him, though he admits he did get "really retired of shape" successful his spell distant from nan sport.

"It's nan first clip I had taken that benignant of break different than an enforced break during Covid, truthful it was conscionable rather a bully clip to conscionable wholly move off," Scott explained.

"I astir apt still don't realise rather really bully nan break was. I would do it again but I astir apt wouldn't get arsenic retired of style arsenic I did, it was 3 months and I managed to get myself really retired of style beautiful fast.

"I deliberation a break aft an Olympic rhythm is really important not only for nan beingness broadside of it but mentally to either regroup, measure what you person done well, measure what you person not done good and besides what you want achieve."