| Adam Peaty 21:26 - Jul 28 with 5320 views | tonybied |
Don't get me wrong, he's a brave man being honest with the world about his problems with depression but I find the blanket coverage on the BBC totally cringeworthy and over the top. Presenters crying because he came second is a bit of odd TV in my eyes. [Post edited 28 Jul 2024 21:27]
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| Adam Peaty on 21:31 - Jul 28 with 4704 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Over the top to have empathy with a man that they probably know personally very well?
Odd take. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 21:32 - Jul 28 with 4695 views | SitfcB |
Rebecca Adlington isn’t a presenter though? |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 21:32 - Jul 28 with 4695 views | Swansea_Blue |
The media set themselves up for a fall there. Far too much pre-race hype and it was asking for failure (wrong word - asking to backfire is what I meant).
It was a decent race though. Ridiculously close finish - Peaty was the quicker swimmer until the last 10 cm. Just lost it on having to glide in for a partial stroke whereas the Italian finished on a full stroke. Such small margins. He’s an undisputed legend of the sport though. That final winning time wasn’t anywhere near close to his records.
Peary can console himself with the thought that If they were being chased by crocodiles, the Italian would have been the one caught 🤣 [Post edited 28 Jul 2024 21:42]
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| Adam Peaty on 22:22 - Jul 28 with 4404 views | tonybied |
| Adam Peaty on 21:31 - Jul 28 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Over the top to have empathy with a man that they probably know personally very well?
Odd take. |
They know a lot of athletes who have most likely suffered depression too i'd wager. I would imagine many athletes at the top of their game have probably suffered as much as Peaty, the sacrifices and the competitive nature of the lives these people have to put up with means it would affect a lot of people.
There was a bit about Tom Daley after, touching on the death of his father and how he was glad his dad was there for him at 2012 and how much he wished he been there to share his other achievements and to meet Daley's son (his grandson), it went back to the presenters and they just started comparing it to what Peaty was going though again, barely any meaningful chat or empathy for Daley. | | | |
| Adam Peaty on 22:30 - Jul 28 with 4347 views | baxterbasics |
Yes I also thought the beeb went way OTT. Was more like X-Factor than sports coverage. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 22:35 - Jul 28 with 4311 views | RadioOrwell |
they are mainly interested in the back story - the hugging - the tears - "how did it feel?" - Clare Balding drives me up the bloody wall. [Post edited 28 Jul 2024 22:37]
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| Adam Peaty on 22:44 - Jul 28 with 4223 views | tonybied |
| Adam Peaty on 21:32 - Jul 28 by Swansea_Blue |
The media set themselves up for a fall there. Far too much pre-race hype and it was asking for failure (wrong word - asking to backfire is what I meant).
It was a decent race though. Ridiculously close finish - Peaty was the quicker swimmer until the last 10 cm. Just lost it on having to glide in for a partial stroke whereas the Italian finished on a full stroke. Such small margins. He’s an undisputed legend of the sport though. That final winning time wasn’t anywhere near close to his records.
Peary can console himself with the thought that If they were being chased by crocodiles, the Italian would have been the one caught 🤣 [Post edited 28 Jul 2024 21:42]
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I said exactly the same thing to my missus after the race.
It was a great race, so, so close. Coming down to prefect finishing stroke technique being the only difference over 100M! Also, I'm in no way disputing the guy is a legend, it was all just too much and I didn't find it in any way enjoyable or entertaining. [Post edited 28 Jul 2024 22:45]
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| Adam Peaty on 22:59 - Jul 28 with 4142 views | Stenvict |
Genuine question.
Why do swimmers always go on about the early mornings to practice? It's not like Adam Peaty has a 9-5 job, surely he could just say to his local swimming pool that he wants to have 1 hour (each day) to himself every week to train. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 23:22 - Jul 28 with 4051 views | Plums |
| Adam Peaty on 22:59 - Jul 28 by Stenvict |
Genuine question.
Why do swimmers always go on about the early mornings to practice? It's not like Adam Peaty has a 9-5 job, surely he could just say to his local swimming pool that he wants to have 1 hour (each day) to himself every week to train. |
I suspect it's because it's years of early mornings before you get anywhere near swimming at a national level. My mate's lad in Australia is up at 4:45am every day and has been doing so for five years or so. If you're not doing it, the swimmer who takes your place on the podium is. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 23:33 - Jul 28 with 4002 views | mutters |
| Adam Peaty on 22:59 - Jul 28 by Stenvict |
Genuine question.
Why do swimmers always go on about the early mornings to practice? It's not like Adam Peaty has a 9-5 job, surely he could just say to his local swimming pool that he wants to have 1 hour (each day) to himself every week to train. |
Good luck finding a timeslot during the day when a swimming pool has space and capacity to allow an athlete to train. Every time I go swimming there is always 4/5 people per lane, which inhibits training (both for them and myself).
Ideally, if you were an Olympic wannabe, you would live near a specialised training pool, however, that is not that easy to find and also people want to live near family/friends etc.
I used to swim 3/4 times a week and went as late in the day as possible (normally 9-10) which often meant I would only have to contend with a couple of other swimmers.
My niece is part of a swim club, she is now 14 and has swum with this club since she was 11. They now train 6 times a week, Which is just bonkers. The weekend starts are often 6am. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 23:38 - Jul 28 with 3959 views | ITFC_Forever |
He’s an ordinary guy with a world class talent. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 08:20 - Jul 29 with 3528 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Adam Peaty on 23:22 - Jul 28 by Plums |
I suspect it's because it's years of early mornings before you get anywhere near swimming at a national level. My mate's lad in Australia is up at 4:45am every day and has been doing so for five years or so. If you're not doing it, the swimmer who takes your place on the podium is. |
That’s just it. The governing body of swimming, FINA, had a go at estimating all the registered swimmers in the world, as there’s nearly 35,000,000 of them. The vast majority will be fitting in the training around school or jobs. Most will be under 16, so will have parents also fitting in their kids training around their own jobs. I tend to be a bit rubbish in work on our early start days, and we’re lucky we can get up at 5 am. Some have further to travel and will be up much earlier than that. It sounds ok in theory, but there’s a good chance you’ll have not got home til after 9pm the night before after evening training. And then cooking/eating late before 5 or 6 hours sleep and then go again. It’s relentless. | |
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| Adam Peaty on 08:26 - Jul 29 with 3496 views | chicoazul |
| Adam Peaty on 23:38 - Jul 28 by ITFC_Forever |
He’s an ordinary guy with a world class talent. |
He’s definitely not ordinary!
Kind of agree with Opie though, this olympics feels like a bit of a retirement tour for several guys like Murray Peaty and Daley and the bbc coverage is reinforcing that. I think we may finish well down the medals table this go around. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 08:47 - Jul 29 with 3412 views | Portwoman |
| Adam Peaty on 22:59 - Jul 28 by Stenvict |
Genuine question.
Why do swimmers always go on about the early mornings to practice? It's not like Adam Peaty has a 9-5 job, surely he could just say to his local swimming pool that he wants to have 1 hour (each day) to himself every week to train. |
One thing to bear in mind, elite swimmers need to train in 50m pools and there aren't many of those in the UK. London, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester, Norwich, Glasgow? And that's if they don't put a boom in the middle to make 2 x 25m pools. Not quite as easy as going to your local running track and even at 25m pools it would be difficult to get pool time in the day. | | | |
| Adam Peaty on 08:52 - Jul 29 with 3373 views | Charlie_pl_baxter |
| Adam Peaty on 22:59 - Jul 28 by Stenvict |
Genuine question.
Why do swimmers always go on about the early mornings to practice? It's not like Adam Peaty has a 9-5 job, surely he could just say to his local swimming pool that he wants to have 1 hour (each day) to himself every week to train. |
Yeah my son is a competitive swimmer and as above is a combination of pool time and the fact he has to go to school during the day! I suspect when they get to Peaty's level there might be more opportunity to train during the day but I believe they tend to stick to the routine they are used to. Usually two swims a day morning and evening and gym work after lunch. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 09:00 - Jul 29 with 3340 views | Keno |
| Adam Peaty on 08:26 - Jul 29 by chicoazul |
He’s definitely not ordinary!
Kind of agree with Opie though, this olympics feels like a bit of a retirement tour for several guys like Murray Peaty and Daley and the bbc coverage is reinforcing that. I think we may finish well down the medals table this go around. |
It was amusing how the radio commentors were doing a eulogy on Murrays career yesterday only for him to go on and win the match |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 09:20 - Jul 29 with 3267 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Adam Peaty on 08:47 - Jul 29 by Portwoman |
One thing to bear in mind, elite swimmers need to train in 50m pools and there aren't many of those in the UK. London, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester, Norwich, Glasgow? And that's if they don't put a boom in the middle to make 2 x 25m pools. Not quite as easy as going to your local running track and even at 25m pools it would be difficult to get pool time in the day. |
We’re not great for 50 m pools in the UK, but there are quite a few around. For training they don’t need to be Olympic width (10 lanes). There are a lot of 50m x 8 lane pools about. We’ve got one in Swansea and luckily that’s 10 mins from us. My god daughter has an hour drive to get to a 50 m pool in Derby. It’s a bit of a post code lottery.
Nobody’s mentioned coaches either. Even quite high up in club swimming, a lot of coaches have day jobs to work around. | |
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| Adam Peaty on 09:40 - Jul 29 with 3194 views | Parsley |
| Adam Peaty on 21:32 - Jul 28 by Swansea_Blue |
The media set themselves up for a fall there. Far too much pre-race hype and it was asking for failure (wrong word - asking to backfire is what I meant).
It was a decent race though. Ridiculously close finish - Peaty was the quicker swimmer until the last 10 cm. Just lost it on having to glide in for a partial stroke whereas the Italian finished on a full stroke. Such small margins. He’s an undisputed legend of the sport though. That final winning time wasn’t anywhere near close to his records.
Peary can console himself with the thought that If they were being chased by crocodiles, the Italian would have been the one caught 🤣 [Post edited 28 Jul 2024 21:42]
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I like the idea of someone being chased by crocodiles and deciding breaststroke is their best bet |  | | |
| Adam Peaty on 11:43 - Jul 29 with 2957 views | vilanovablue |
| Adam Peaty on 08:26 - Jul 29 by chicoazul |
He’s definitely not ordinary!
Kind of agree with Opie though, this olympics feels like a bit of a retirement tour for several guys like Murray Peaty and Daley and the bbc coverage is reinforcing that. I think we may finish well down the medals table this go around. |
We're actually likely to do better than Tokyo, sure plenty are retiring after the games but there are plenty of new talents coming through. Hodgkinson in the 800m for example. The reality is in a team of close to 400 people there are always going to be a few who are at their final games and many who are at their first. |  | | |
| Adam Peaty on 11:52 - Jul 29 with 2914 views | itfc48 |
He's obviously a bit older now and had the foot injury but the comparison in times highlighted just how hard he worked for those first two Olympics. I'm not saying he didn't work hard for this games, more that he had a superhuman and unsustainable training schedule back then. | | | |
| Adam Peaty on 12:53 - Jul 29 with 2802 views | stonojnr |
| Adam Peaty on 23:33 - Jul 28 by mutters |
Good luck finding a timeslot during the day when a swimming pool has space and capacity to allow an athlete to train. Every time I go swimming there is always 4/5 people per lane, which inhibits training (both for them and myself).
Ideally, if you were an Olympic wannabe, you would live near a specialised training pool, however, that is not that easy to find and also people want to live near family/friends etc.
I used to swim 3/4 times a week and went as late in the day as possible (normally 9-10) which often meant I would only have to contend with a couple of other swimmers.
My niece is part of a swim club, she is now 14 and has swum with this club since she was 11. They now train 6 times a week, Which is just bonkers. The weekend starts are often 6am. |
But that's the classic Olympics sacrifice you have to make to be successful in any sport. It's early hours training,travelling away from family to find good facilities , not having social life.
Peaty isn't in control of how the media portray him, they see more drama in the journey piece than the pure sporting accomplishments alone. | | | |
| Adam Peaty on 13:07 - Jul 29 with 2760 views | BiGDonnie |
Didn't mean to downvote that! |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 13:22 - Jul 29 with 2715 views | Ryorry |
I wish they'd focus a lot more on all the competitors who aren't as well known & barely ever get a mention because new on the scene or not as successful.
Will never forget seeing a docu on Kelly Holmes back in the day in the run up to her first ever Olympics - it looked at all the trials, tribulations, injuries & setbacks she was going through just to make it onto the team. You could then really empathise with her as an individual, so were drawn into following her progress, & it made her successes seem all the sweeter. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 16:24 - Jul 29 with 2549 views | Whos_blue |
Just tested positive for Covid.
That would more than account for the 0.02 seconds.
Swimming legend. |  |
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| Adam Peaty on 16:30 - Jul 29 with 2529 views | Buhrer |
| Adam Peaty on 09:40 - Jul 29 by Parsley |
I like the idea of someone being chased by crocodiles and deciding breaststroke is their best bet |
Bloody stupid idea. Crocodiles don't even have breasts. |  | | |
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