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Heartbreak for Adam Peaty on bittersweet day two for Team GB

Adam Peaty poses with his silver medal after the men’s 100m breaststroke final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Adam Peaty poses with his silver medal after the men’s 100m breaststroke final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

World record-holding swimmer Adam Peaty was left in tears after being beaten to gold by the smallest of margins on a bittersweet day for Team GB at the Paris Games.

The 29-year-old had been seeking to join American legend Michael Phelps as only the second man to win three successive Olympic golds in the same discipline, but trailed Italy’s Nicolò Martinenghi by just 0.02 of a second in the men’s 100m breaststroke.

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