While Adam Peaty is returning to the Olympics with a fresh outlook on life, his focus on a third consecutive 100m breaststroke gold medal remains.
PARIS, France -- Amid the rigours of preparing for Paris 2024, Adam Peaty sat down with Team GB swimming teammate James Guy to watch a film. They turned on"American Gangster," and when Denzel Washington delivered one of the film's famous lines, it resonated with him."It says the loudest man in the room is the weakest man," Peaty tells reporters, seeing a lesson for his own life.
It all builds for one of the most transfixing events of the Games: Will Peaty do it again? Will his size 12 feet, 38cm biceps and his 117cm chest provide enough forward thrust to deliver another gold, more adulation, more history?. Those are more existential and delve far deeper."My relationship with a gold medal now is I know that it won't solve any of the problems that I want it to," Peaty says.
"He only sees it as you win or lose and you'll forget it after a day. For me, I want to prove that you can come back from potentially the lowest of the lows of my whole career and you can turn it around within potentially 14 months, which is a very short timeframe, and still overcome the odds of what everyone else is doing because the sport is only going to get faster."It's been a long road since he stood atop the podium in Tokyo.
All the while, he continued training for Paris."The physical preparation goes on so my body will be ready to fight again when my heart and mind have caught up," he said. He finally returned in February for the world championships in Doha. Now he says he has renewed motivation and a much fresher perspective.
It will show his son if he really is still the fastest breaststroker in the world. It will determine his place among the greats of the sport. It will either break one of Phelps' most daunting records or enshrine it for years to come.
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