Adam Peaty calls for ‘fair game’ amid anti-doping concern at Olympic swimming heats

• ‘You want to win fair and be around people who do same’
• Peaty second in heats; Ledecky fastest in women’s 400m freestyle

The British three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty has called for a “fair game” as anti-doping concern lingered on the opening morning of Olympic swimming in Paris.

After months of controversy, heated allegations and vitriolic counter-claims, sparked by anti-doping revelations involving 23 Chinese swimmers, on Saturday it was at last time for some actual swimming. But while the opening morning went off without incident, politics and controversy were never far from the surface.

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