Rebecca Adlington: Why Adam Peaty is a racing certainty to make Olympic history
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mirror.co.ukThere is a target on the back of Adam Peaty, only nobody can get close enough to see it. He is reigning champion, world record holder and a swimmer who never gives the impression he thinks he can be beaten.
Of course the rest of the world is queueing up to give him a bloody nose. But swing as they might they can’t get within range. “Definitely it’s more difficult to defend a title than win it, mentally as well as physically,” says Rebecca Adlington, who won double gold in Beijing but came up in short in London. “Adam is older, he’s not the spring chicken on the block any more.
He’s going to have people chasing him down. Everyone wants to be the person that finally knocks him off his pedestal. “The problem for all of them is the challenge of
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