SWIMMING NEWS - Britain's Adam Peaty narrowly missed breaking his own world record again as he won the men's 50m breaststroke gold at the world championships on Wednesday to complete another sprint double.
Peaty, already a winner over 100m in Budapest, clocked 25.99 seconds over 50m, just 0.04sec short of his record time in Tuesday's semifinals, with Brazil's Joao Gomes Junior taking silver, 0.53sec behind.
South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh, the 2009 and 2013 world champion in the 50m breaststroke, earned bronze at 0.61sec and promptly paid tribute to Peaty's powerful performances.
"I think I have to retire and give it a few years and come back when he's older," joked the 29-year-old Van der Burgh.
"It's really impressive. It's not even breaststroke anymore, he's swimming like a new kind of stroke, like a metamorphosis between (butter)fly and breast.
"You have to have a lot of power, obviously, to swim it and it's suited to his kind of stroke, but it's difficult because not everyone can do it.
"Probably you would have to start imitating that kind of fly movement to beat him."
