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Adam Peaty, a three-time Olympic champion, says he would “100% yes” to the addition of the 50-meter breaststroke as an event at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Peaty, 29, returned to the sport last autumn after taking a break due to alcohol and mental health concerns, but lost to someone else by 0.02 seconds in the 2024 100m breaststroke Olympic final in Paris.
Peaty, who stated that he would “take a break” but continue to practice over the next two years, holds the world record in the 50-meter breaststroke, which World Aquatics has requested be added for the upcoming Olympics, according to sources in August.
“World Aquatics may propose to the Olympic committee that the 50-meter breaststroke race be
“If it occurs, it would be absolutely I’m there, certainly, but I’m not sure when I’ll find out.
The 50-meter freestyle is the only 50-meter event held in the Olympics.
At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Peaty, who also owns four of the five fastest times in history in the 50-meter breaststroke, broke his own world record twice.
He is still the only competitor to break 26 seconds with his world record timing of 25.95.
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After winning three consecutive gold medals at the World Championships in the 50-meter breaststroke, Peaty’s victory at the 2022 Commonwealth Games was her final major gold medal.
For the first time since March 2022, Peaty returned to competitive action in October 2023 when he placed third in the event at the World Cup meet in Berlin.
Peaty described his problems as a “self-destructive spiral” and stated that he was thinking about permanently giving up swimming last year.
He injured his foot in 2022, ending his eight-year unbeaten streak in the 100-meter breaststroke, and those problems reached a breaking point.
After returning, Peaty won silver in the 100-meter breaststroke in Paris, and the next day, he tested positive for COVID-19.
In an emotional poolside interview, Peaty expressed his belief that it felt “like I’ve still won” after failing to duplicate American Michael Phelps in winning the same swimming event at three straight Olympics.
The one race in my career when I define myself not by a medal but by the feelings and emotions I had right after
Before Tokyo, there were times when I would feel really let down and define myself by a defeat, and I would have spiraled out of control.
Returning and persevering through [my difficult times] demonstrates to my boy [George] and any child that you can endure a truly trying period and overcome it if you set your mind to it.
