Peaty still has relays coming up later this week.
Adam Peaty won silver in the 100m breaststroke on Sunday Adam Peaty has tested positive for Covid after winning silver in the 100m breaststroke at Paris 2024 on Sunday night. The Team GB star began to feel unwell ahead of the race on Sunday, in which he very narrowly missed out on gold by 0.02 seconds, and complained of a sore throat after the contest.
Peaty was just 0.02 seconds behind the winner Nicolo Martinenghi on Sunday, but was far from devastated by the narrow loss, delighted to have come so close to a third straight gold at the Olympic Games. ‘It has been a very long way back. I look at the score there and you would never think in your wildest dreams that it would be 59 seconds to win it,’ he told the BBC. Peaty and USA’s Nic Fink were joint silver medalists behind Nicolo Martinenghi ‘I gave it my absolute all.
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