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

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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. “That period of time where I was undefeated for eight years, whatever it was, it was athlete first, then human,” Ramsay-Peaty said. “Now it’s human first, then athlete, which is a very fair price to pay.” He was then asked whether he could get his superpower back. “My superpower looks very different…

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