Adam Peaty: ‘You have to be better than everyone else, there’s no sugar-coating it’ | Adam Peaty

World champion swimmer Adam Peaty, the unbeaten world record holder of the 50m and 100m breaststroke, is friendly and engaged, but he makes no bones about being hypercompetitive. He once said that he felt like a “god” in the pool. He says now, “You have to be better than everyone else,…