Guy set to spice it up after Games success

A CHICKEN korma will be James Guy’s homecoming reward for his Olympic heroics, according to his dad Andrew.

Guy has enjoyed a sensational meet in Tokyo, securing gold in the 4x200 metres men’s freestyle and the 4x100m mixed medley relay, and can add to his medal tally in the men’s 4x100m medley relay in the early hours of Sunday.

His dad already knows what his son will want to do first when he lands at Heathrow Airport on Monday evening.

“The first thing he’ll do when we pick him up is say ‘Dad, I need a curry,”’ Guy senior told the PA news agency.

“He only ever has one curry – chicken korma. And it’s not even really curry is it? That’s all he ever has. Crazy. Rice, and two chapatis, that’s it.

“He loves playing golf, he loves to fish. He likes good food, he likes Chinese, he’ll put a bit of weight on but do you know what? He’s entitled to it.”

Andrew has deprived himself of sleep to watch his son in action in the early hours of the morning over the last few days, and watched the mixed medley relay success at their home near Crewe in Cheshire on Saturday with James’ mum Cath and their youngest son Luke and Luke’s girlfriend Emily.

“I’m losing my voice,” Andrew said.

“How often does it come along that your son is a double Olympic champion and world record holder?”

Born in Bury, Greater Manchester, Guy has sacrificed so much to make it to the pinnacle of his sport, but his first forays into the pool were not so promising.

“I remember going (to swimming with him) and he would never listen,” Andrew recalled.

“I remember the instructor saying to him ‘you’ll never be a swimmer’.

He was about five. He didn’t listen, he just kept ducking himself under the water.”

Asked to sum up his son, Andrew said: “He’s the boy from next door, dead normal. If you sat with him he would never tell you he was a swimmer, he’d never tell you what he’d won.

“He’s quite sensitive, not over-confident, but if you employed him he would give 100 per cent every day.”

Guy’s sensitive side came to the fore as he shed tears after the 4x200m freestyle gold, and his father said: “That cry was the anticipation of winning the pinnacle medal in his career.”