Adam Peaty may have swum his last race. After he and the British relay team of Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, and Ollie Morgan finished fourth in the 4x100m medley the 29-year-old Peaty said he “might have to step away from the sport” because “it hurts too much”.
This defeat was particularly painful. Two of the Chinese quartet that won gold, Qin Haiyang and Sun Jiajun, were among 11 swimmers allowed to compete at these Games even after it emerged they had previously tested positive for trace amounts of banned performance enhancing drugs. The positive tests were blamed on food contamination.
