Adam Peaty wins Olympic silver in 100m breaststroke to complete amazing comeback in Paris after battle with alcoholism
“You can train eight years for something and not feel 100 per cent on a day. And 100 per cent costs you 0.02 and that's just the way.“I won’t be going home thinking about that, even if it feels like a hangover in the morning because of the emotions.
Yet instead of gold this time, it was silver. And a shared silver at that. Beaten, not by China’s Qin Haiyang, the swimmer who should NEVER have been allowed to take part in the race. Martinenghi’s time of 59.03 was modest, more than two seconds slower than Peaty’s 2019 world record, slower than both the Brit and Qin had recorded in the semis on Saturday.
It made him look vulnerable, beatable, human. All too beatable, as it turned out — although not for the want of trying. At least he did not lose to Qin, one of the 11 members of the Chinese 2024 team who tested positive for banned heart medication TMZ BEFORE the Tokyo Games to have never served a ban for it.
As he stood on the podium, receiving his silver medal from the Princess Royal, he bowed and smiled, aware that son George was there to see him.
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