The BBC has been slammed by viewers, who have criticised its coverage of the Olympics.

In nail-biting scenes on Sunday evening, Adam Peaty narrowly missed out on Team GB’s first gold medal of the Paris Games after coming second in the 100m men’s breaststroke. The swimmer, 29, who is dating Gordon Ramsay’s daughter, Holly, 24, was the main focus of the Beeb’s offering at the Aquatics Centre.

However, some viewers complained they had to switch over to Eurosport because of an ‘unfair’ focus on the dad-of-one. Many accused the BBC of focusing too heavily on one race – and Adam’s journey in particular – by airing repeat VTs when other exciting sport was on at the same time.

Taking to X, formerly Twitter, one fan fumed: “Thank God Eurosport have the Olympics on, least we actually get to see the sports, BBC have far too much talking. There are other swimmers as well not just Adam Peaty. One swimming race shown pathetic from BBC.”

Adam Peaty with his girlfriend, Holly Ramsay, at the Paris Olympics ( 
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Another moaned: “We’ve seen a dozen Adam Peaty VT’s we don’t need another one.” A third vented: “The BBC’s obsession with Adam Peaty is incredibly weird. He’s not dead, FFS”, while a fourth mused: “Totally painful. Over 30 mins on Peaty: the build up the VT, the swim, the interview, the interminable discussions….”

Elsewhere, another viewer claimed that Adam’s race “wasn’t even live and with no times or split times and result.” They continued: “Watch Eurosport mate, all live with results and graphics.”

However, 8.1m viewers tuned in to watch the race on the BBC and there has been extensive coverage extensive of the Olympics across BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and Red Button

Rebecca Addlington broke down in tears during the live broadcast ( 

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Adam struggled to hold back tears after missing out on his third successive gold medal as he was pipped in the 100m men’s breaststroke final by just 0.02 seconds.

His impressive run started in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and continued at Tokyo 2020. The star would have been just the second man after American Michael Phelps to win the same individual event at three Games in a row had he triumphed at the Paris Olympics on Sunday night.

However, it wasn’t to be, which was made worse by a catalogue of setbacks for Adam, including depression, splitting from the mother of his son, a fractured foot and battles with alcohol. He returned to finish third in the World Championships in February, and took joint-silver in Sunday’s Olympics race. However, it means Team GB’s wait for their first gold medal in Paris goes on.

Adam’s girlfriend, Holly, who went public with the star in June last year, has gushed over the athlete being the ‘best father to George’ – his son from his previous relationship with Eirianned Munro.

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The eldest child of celebrity chef, Gordon, has been poolside throughout Adam’s heats and had tears in her eyes, sitting next to George, as he told BBC Sport: “I’m so happy that I can race the fastest in the world and still come second. I’m not crying because I lost, these are happy tears because I said to myself I would give it everything I’ve got and I have. And I can’t be upset about that.”