Adam Peaty said he's on the 'war path' ahead of his Commonwealth Games final tonight. The 31-year-old swimmer broke down in tears on Saturday after claiming bronze in the 100m breaststroke, insisting that no one knew the “s**t” he’s been through.
Fatherhood and emotion
Speaking to fellow athlete Laura Kenny after the semi-final on Sunday, Peaty was asked how he came back from the previous day's disappointment. “You're making me emotional again. It's what it's like being parents,” he replied. “I think for me, people congratulate me [for] doing the heats. I'm like, what for? It's just my job.”
He added that he wrote on a piece of paper: “‘What am I doing well? What am I doing wrong? What can I change? What can't I change?’ That's the real world. As soon as I had that, I could build a little bit of a path, a little bit of a war path.”
Family rift and support
His parents were not in the crowd, but pregnant wife Holly Ramsay was there to embrace him. His mother Caroline shared a social media post insisting they were “supporting him from afar” amid the ongoing family feud. Caroline wrote: “We continue to support Adam from afar. He's our son who we love, whom we supported to reach his aspirations.” She added, “We are strong, we love and are always there for each other. The very nature of our strength as a family has helped us move past the nastiness, the lies that have been told about us.”
Looking ahead
Peaty, set to become a father for the second time in December, said: “Yes, we lost the battle yesterday. Yes, it hurt a lot. But actually that was because of the expectation I put on myself when really I'm just at the start of this new canvas of being - in December - a father of two, an athlete going to my fourth Olympic Games, this stuff gets harder and harder as we go on.” He will next compete in the 50m breaststroke final.
