Steve Parry
Olympic bronze medal swimmer on BBC Radio 5 live

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With the focus being there in the middle of the pool on Adam Peaty, Nick Fink and Qin Haiyang, Nicolo Martinenghi was given the perfect opportunity to come from lane seven and nick it. He burgled that gold medal because everyone else was looking at one another in the middle of the pool.

Rebecca Adlington
Double Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer on BBC TV

You could see he was genuinely happy. You could see they were happy tears.

I'm just emotional for him because, as an athlete, you know what he has been through. I have achieved nothing compared to Adam - what he has achieved is unbelievable - I can't even get my head around it.

He is such a role model for the rest of that team - people look up to him and he just has so much respect. It is amazing to see him smile.

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Anthony Mcnally: Well done Adam Peaty. To finish second after everything he’s been through.

Paul Williams: That race was close but capping off an amazing Olympic career. Changed how breaststroke was swam. Few more swims in the relays.

More from GB's Adam Peaty: "I'm so happy that I can race against the best in the world and still come joint-second. In my heart I have won, these are happy tears. I gave my absolute best every single day and I cannot be upset about that.

"I'm almost an older man here now. I can't have that relentless pursuit every single day without a sacrifice of some sort - they come in every single form. It's very hard to compete with the younger ones, so I'm very happy with that."

GB's Adam Peaty speaking after winning the men's 100m breaststroke silver medal: "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.

"I gave it my absolute all. I executed it as well as I could. It's not about the end goal, it's about the process. It doesn't matter what time it says on the scoreboard, I think in my heart I have already won."

It might not have been the 'Three Peat' but Adam Peaty had a big smile on his face after that race.

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Steve Parry
Olympic bronze medal swimmer on BBC Radio 5 live

I think Adam Peaty goes to bed tonight incredibly proud of himself. There is nothing that this guy has not done in the last ten years. In fact he's done it all more than twice; World Championships, European Championships, Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games.

He has been the talisman of the British team. He has faced the hardest fight he has ever had over the last two years, gone to the Olympic Games again and won a silver medal with his boy watching on. The crowning event of his career.

Adrian Moorhouse
1988 Olympic 100m breaststroke champion on BBC TV

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That was an amazing swim from Martinenghi. He took the opportunity and it was a scrap but, as we said beforehand, there was a lot of emotion around this race. He was all over it.

Equal second for Adam Peaty - brilliant!

Right at the end, you could actually see them all trying to time their last stroke right.

Karen Pickering
Swimming & diving expert on BBC Radio 5 live

All that came down to was on the final stroke Adam Peaty had a slight glide heading into the wall, Nicolo Martinenghi didn't.

The Italian hit the wall and ended up winning it by milliseconds.

So close, but Adam Peaty comes up short.

The GB swimmer takes silver as Italy's Nicolo Martinenghi claims the gold.

The pair share an embrace across the lanes.

American Nic Fink shares silver with Peaty, coming in at exactly the same time - 59.05 seconds.

China's Qin Haiyang, one of the favourites, finishes down in seventh.

China's Qin Haiyang has the better start, but Adam Peaty is beginning to reel him in.

Off we go!

Can Adam Peaty do it?

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

My heart is going.

Yours?

Karen Pickering
Swimming & diving expert on BBC Radio 5 live

Adam Peaty is so spurred on by missing the World Championships last year and watching the title go to Qin Haiyang. When you think of the difficulties he has been through, both physically and mentally, I didn't even know he would be competing at the trials or be in a position to compete at the Olympic Games.

He has put himself in this position. He is an incredible competitor and sounds like he is actually enjoying being back racing. To be back in with a chance to win a gold medal is incredible.

Adam Peaty is aiming to become the second man after the great American Michael Phelps to win the same individual event at three Games in a row.

The 29-year-old Briton cruised to his previous two Olympic golds, in 2016 and 2021, but has struggled with injury and his mental health since the last Games in Tokyo.

He took a break from the sport and considered stopping entirely and in his absence at last year’s World Championships Qin Haiyang emerged as a serious rival.

Qin swam a 57.69-second 100m last year, making him the second-fastest of all time behind Peaty and the quickest of anyone since Tokyo.

Steve Parry
Olympic bronze medal swimmer on BBC Radio 5 live

This race is not only huge for Adam Peaty but it is also massive in the sport.

There has only been one other person that has managed to win a gold medal in an event three times, and that is the great man himself, Michael Phelps.

For a Brit, for our sport, for him to join the likes of Michael Phelps in that category it is absolutely massive.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

We've said it plenty of times but Adam Peaty could do something very special by winning gold tonight.

It would make him on the second male swimming after Michael Phelps to win golds in the same event at three consecutive Olympics.

The great American is here too.

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Adrian Moorhouse
1988 Olympic 100m breaststroke champion on BBC TV

That was a brilliant swim from Oliver Morgan! The time to do it was then.

Particularly with Xu next to him, going out so quickly, he will have been getting a lot of the waves from his feet.

Brilliant from Great Britain's Ollie Morgan.

He nods his head in approval after finishing third, behind China's Xu Jiayu and Apostolos Christou of Greece.

That's enough for Morgan to reach the final as the seventh fastest across the two semi-finals.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Roland Garros

After speaking to the media, Andy Murray walks out of the mixed zone to be greeted by mum Judy.

The pair share a loving embrace and share a few loving words.

I'm sure 'Bloody well done, son' is the gist of it.

What a cute moment.

Murray shakes hands with the Evans family, which includes Dan’s wife and dad, before posing for a few photos with other fans.

The smile is as wide as the Seine!

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