Olympics-Swimming-Peaty aims for another dominant display in Tokyo

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Adam Peaty can make history in Tokyo as the first Briton to defend an Olympic swimming title but he wants to do more than just win.

FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Men's 50m Breaststroke Final - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 24, 2019. Adam Peaty of Britain competes. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File PhotoThe 26-year-old has been so dominant in the 100m breaststroke that until April 30, when Arno Kamminga set a Dutch record of 57.90 seconds, the top 20 fastest swims ever in the distance had his name on them.The Briton, who set a record 56.

"We've done the sums and I think if it went absolutely perfectly, and I’m talking the fastest parts that I’ve done in a physical race and you put them all together, it’s 56.2 or 56.3, which is absolutely ridiculous," he said."I’m not saying I’m going to go that, before you put it on the headlines, but I do believe I can get faster than the world record.

 

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