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Privacy NoticeAdam Peaty, the legendary Olympian, experienced an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction during what he described as the “biggest race of his life.” The 29 year old swimmer, who has won three gold and three silver medals across three Olympic Games, shared the cringe-worthy moment from the start of his career while on the Sporting Misadventures podcast with Sir Chris Hoy. He said: “I’ve had a lot of things happen to me but one of the worst was at European juniors. For context, that was the biggest race of my life so I’d prepared all season for this and I was like 17, I think I was at this point. I get onto the blocks and I’m like okay, my 50m went horrendous, my 200m went horrendous, I’ve got win this race because there’s two Brits who have qualified ahead of me.” Adam then revealed the unfortunate incident: “And I’d stretched a little bit too far on the block, and bearing in mind the crowd were behind me, my trunks ripped right down the a***, like literally split right down the middle. Sign up to OK!’s daily newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free
Adam won silver in the men’s 100m breaststroke at the Paris Olympic Games
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“I was like firstly ‘why, why has this happened’ and secondly, ‘what do I do about it?’ My team manager comes down with this tiny pair of Speedos that aren’t even mine, like a training trunk, a G-string and throws them and says ‘put these on and you’ve got to race,'” reports the Mirror. Adam, who is dating Gordon Ramsay’s daughter Holly, only started taking swimming seriously when he was aged 17. He has previously admitted to having a lightbulb moment during the 2012 London Olympics. He told The Guardian he was preparing for a night out to “get drunk in a field or something stupid like that” when he saw his friend Chris Benson, just eight months his senior, had qualified for the semi-finals in Adam’s favourite event, the 100m breaststroke.
Adam tested positive for Covid after he won the final
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Adam described it as a “what am I doing in life” moment. Since then he has broken world records 14 times – currently holding the honour in the 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke – becoming the first male to swim the 50 metre breaststroke in 26 seconds and the 100m in under 57 seconds. Adam won silver in the men’s 100 metre breaststroke at the Olympics in Paris on Sunday 28 July. However, he tested positive for COVID-19 the following day and was not able to take part in the 4x100m medley relay heats on Friday 2 August. It is possible he could join the Team GB squad for the final on Saturday, should the team, who are defending champions, qualify.Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnAdam PeatyOlympics
