2 athletes who won gold and silver in tandem swam so awesomely their teammate sobbed uncontrollably in the stands

• Team GB swept the Olympic gold and silver medal in the men's 200-meter freestyle event Tuesday.
• It was a sweet victory for Tom Dean, who twice contracted the coronavirus this year.
• The success was felt in the stands as teammate James Guy sobbed uncontrollably.

Two athletes who won gold and silver swam so awesomely at the Olympic Games on Tuesday that their teammates wept with joy in the stands.

The way in which Great British swimmers Tom Dean and Duncan Scott finished in the one-two position at the 200-meters freestyle inside the Tokyo Aquatics Centre was a sight to behold.

Dean finished with a time of one minute and 44.22 seconds to win the race, with Scott just 0.04 seconds behind him in second place. The Brazilian swimmer Fernando Scheffer won the bronze medal.

Victory was perhaps all the sweeter for Dean, who is just 21 years old, as he twice contracted symptomatic coronavirus during the build-up to the Tokyo Games, and so his preparations were far from ideal.

"It wasn't life-threatening, but when you are doing a sport that is quite heavy on the cardio-vascular system, and you can see it's affecting your lungs, you're coughing and all that stuff, you're a little bit worried about how you're going to build back in," Dean said, according to AP News.

The Olympic win, which joins other gold medals of his from European Championship tournaments, "is the single greatest achievement of my life," he said Tuesday.

Dean wasn't the favorite to win gold. His Team GB teammate Scott was deemed to have the greater chance of winning the title.

Scott, though, said Dean possesses a physical advantage - he has unnaturally-long arms, and can therefore get a touch of the finish line faster.

"He's got big arms does Dean-o, so you'd probably have to be several meters in front to touch him out," said Scott.

"It was great," he added. "With what's he's been through this year, it's special."

Scott and Dean weren't the only Brits who were overjoyed at the result, as the gold and silver medal sweep was lapped-up by James Guy, another Team GB teammate, who couldn't help but cry his eyes out watching live in the stands.

Watch Guy's reaction here:

Guy called them all "brothers in arms," on Twitter.

He said: "So glad to see my training partner and brother Tom Dean get the win and Duncan Scott get second. Was with him the whole way from start to finish!"