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“I was really struggling to get food down, and was stressing about things like getting a medley relay slot instead of thinking about getting a medal tonight.<\/p>\n
“My coach said to me I had nothing to lose but to just relax and enjoy it.”<\/p>\n
Alongside fellow Scots Ciara Schlosshan and Lucy Grieve – who finished fifth and sixth respectively – MacInnes did just that.<\/p>\n
Third at the turn, she overhauled South Africa’s Erin Gallagher as the noise grew louder to earn a spot on the second step of the podium. Australia’s Alex Perkins took gold.<\/p>\n
“Oh, God, I’m just starting to get my breath back,” MacInnes said. “That was so incredible.<\/p>\n
“I’m so grateful to the crowd for making it such a special memory for me. I’m so grateful to my parents and boyfriend who are up in the crowd and I’m so glad I was able to do it in front of them.<\/p>\n
“A silver is crazy to me. Maybe I was thinking ‘bronze could be really cool’ so this is just so amazing.”<\/p>\n
Duncan Scott knows all about Games medals, given he has 14 of them in the house.<\/p>\n
Gold in Friday’s 200m individual medley was a fine start to proceedings, but a couple of relay near-misses over the weekend were followed by another fourth place in the 200m butterfly on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n