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The Guardian - UK
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Sean Ingle at the Tollcross Swimming Centre

‘It’s human first, then athlete’: Ramsay-Peaty happy with second bronze in new reality

South Africa’s Michael Houlie (left), Sam Williamson of Australia (centre) and Adam Ramsay-Peaty of England after the 50m breaststroke final.
South Africa’s Michael Houlie (left), Sam Williamson of Australia (centre) and Adam Ramsay-Peaty of England after the 50m breaststroke final. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Shortly after Adam Ramsay-Peaty had battled desperately to snatch another bronze medal at these Commonwealth Games, it was put to him that he was no longer a winning machine.

Once upon a time, Britain’s greatest swimmer might have bristled. Instead he nodded – before pointing out that, at 31, he was now winning in an altogether different way.

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