‘We work just as hard’: Team GB swimmers want Olympic prize money

• Tom Dean joins calls for swimming to follow lead of athletics
• Richards says reward would ‘make a lot of athletes a lot happier’

Britain’s double Tokyo 2020 champion Tom Dean has joined a chorus of calls for prize money to be paid at the Olympic Games after track and field athletes were offered $50,000 if they win gold in Paris.

Dean, who became the first male British swimmer to win two golds at the same Games in 113 years at Tokyo, said that people were shocked that he earned ­nothing for his Olympics exploits – even though swimming is one of the most popular sports at the Games.

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