'Gave my absolute best' - Peaty narrowly misses out on gold three-peat - video Dailymotion

Nicolo Martinenghi snuck past Adam Peaty by 0.02 seconds to win gold in the men's 100m breaststroke final

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00:00It's a true pleasure, it's a true joy to walk out there and put myself on the line because

00:05yes we see bronze, silver, gold as something that's gratifiable but everyone in that race

00:11is fair that they all win because 9.999% of people don't want to put themselves in that

00:16situation. It couldn't have gone to a better guy and it's just a great race as well with

00:20Nick so I gave my absolute best and that is it. And I grew up with Adam like I don't know I saw

00:25him first of all in the TV I started to race against him probably he don't remember that when

00:30I was I don't know 16 and now after eight years become Olympic champion just next to Adam is a

00:36dream come true, no?