Adam Peaty: Finding a way to win whilst conquering my demons (E75)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Adam Peaty is the first British swimmer to retain their Olympic title after winning Team GB's first gold medal of Tokyo 2020 with victory in the men's 100m breaststroke.
Adam now has the 16 quickest times in history over the 100m breaststroke and is the only swimmer ever to dip under 57 seconds with his 2019 world record.
With eight world titles, 16 European titles, Adam is one of GB’s greatest Olympian’s of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to the latest episode of the High Performance Podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I just want to start by saying, congratulations Tom Daly who has been a guest on the |
| 0:10.7 | podcast, you can find his episode his brilliant episode in |
| 0:14.0 | series one. Oh Olympic Champion I watched that happen live with my wife we were up |
| 0:20.4 | early in the morning and what I loved it there was a few things that really |
| 0:24.1 | stood out to me from Tom winning gold the first one was his coach Jane Figueredo giving |
| 0:30.1 | him advice words of wisdom tips and basically coaching him before his penultimate |
| 0:37.2 | dive and I just love the fact that they're at the absolute pinnacle of the diving world, |
| 0:41.3 | they're diving in the Olympic final. They've only got a couple of |
| 0:43.9 | dives left yet still she's finding the time to stitch the information into him |
| 0:48.6 | which was brilliant and then the other thing that stood out for me was when we spoke about it on the |
| 0:53.9 | podcast episode with Tom the presence of mind when he's standing on the board in an |
| 0:58.0 | Olympic final to deliver under the conditions like that the incredible |
| 1:02.2 | pressure and massive |
| 1:03.5 | congratulations as well to the Chinese pair. Obviously they dived last and can |
| 1:07.9 | you imagine what that's like knowing that it's a big chance to win gold and |
| 1:12.1 | they did a brilliant dive as well. It wasn't quite enough, but to know the journey Tom's been on and we discussed the journey in great detail on his podcast episode and then to see him win gold, I'm happy to sit here and tell you that my wife |
| 1:25.1 | and I both had tears in our eyes in fact we had tears streaming down our cheeks but |
| 1:29.5 | there you go so Tom thank you for being on the podcast and huge congratulations to you. |
| 1:34.1 | I also want to say big thanks as well because the reaction to the interview that we put out in |
| 1:38.8 | the previous episode with Mel Marshall, the swimming coach was incredible. |
| 1:42.8 | He's a really quick message from Mark and he says, |
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