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

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.

Germany's Melvin Imoudu will get bronze, while 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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Steve Parry
Olympic bronze medal swimmer on BBC Radio 5 live

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Adam Peaty was once so dominant that he and his coach had to come up with projects where he was racing the clock.

Before Tokyo all the talk was about 'project 56' [beating the 56 seconds mark in this event]. It was a case of we know we are going to win so let's push the boundary.

Now he is racing people. This is the first time in a decade he is probably concerned about the people he is coming up against.

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

I never took the opportunity to go to a third Olympics because it was so, so difficult.

I just want people to appreciate the fact that Adam Peaty is a legend - no matter if he gets a gold, silver, bronze or no medal tonight!

What he has achieved in the sport is just amazing. He has literally changed breaststroke, he has changed history.

I just want him to come out tonight and just be happy, soak up the atmosphere and enjoy the race. What will happen, will happen.

Great Britain's Jonny Marshall comes home in eighth in the first men's 100m backstroke semi-final. That won't be good enough to make the final.

Thomas Ceccon of Italy finishes first, while the Olympic record holder Ryan Murphy is fourth.

GB's Oliver Morgan is up next in the second semi. He goes in lane seven.

All the swimming action is on BBC One.

Boxing follows the hockey on iPlayer and the Red Button.

Mike

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