‘I can retire now’ – Adam Peaty in humorous mood following winning 50m breaststroke gold at Commonwealth Games

Adam Peaty joked that he can now retire soon after he took the gold medal in the 50m breaststroke at the Commonwealth Online games for the initial time.

The a few-time Olympic gold medallist powered his way to victory in a blistering time of 26.76 followed by Australia’s Sam Williamson and Scotland’s Ross Murdoch.

He attained the ultimate in the 50m breaststroke with a second-positioned complete in a time of 27.03 seconds, two just one-hundredths at the rear of William at 27.01 on Monday.

Immediately after finishing second in 2018 and 2014, the 50m breaststroke Commonwealth Game titles gold was the only gold missing from his collection, and he could not cover his emotion when he finally topped the podium.

“I had two alternatives this early morning I both fight or don’t fight. Absolutely everyone who is aware of me, is aware of I fight,” he informed BBC Sport.

“That implies so considerably to me, since what I have been by the previous five many years, I dropped my spark to the beginning of the 7 days and I have it back now.

“There had been a large amount of thoughts yesterday but a large amount of persons have got to comprehend that I attained the base of the bottom yesterday and to provide myself up with the group in my possess head and that is the outcome.

“That was the only just one I have not gained in my job, the Commonwealth 50m and I can retire now. I you should not treatment about the stats, tonight was about racing, who was heading to get on the wall 1st.

“No a single can really get up to the fee I get to but devoid of the coaching it goes nowhere. I am hunting forward to resetting and possessing a winter season for the reason that I haven’t accomplished that because 2019.

“I am so happy I got that decline before in the 7 days because these wins truly feel so much far more alive and so much much better.”