Peaty, 21, took first place in the men's 100m breaststroke final.
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It was the third time Peaty had won the LEN award.
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Adam Peaty of Britain cruised to victory in the 50 breaststroke.
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LONDON — There is more than one superstar in the extended Peaty family.
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Van der Burgh said Peaty was in a league of his own.
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"I said 'Peaty, don't smash it, just control it'," he told reporters.
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"We are going to be on top strength," Peaty said of Rio.
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It ranges from deep, peaty whisky flavours through to light, peachy flavours.
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The British team of Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Duncan Scott won the first heat in 3 minutes 30.47 seconds, with Peaty making his first appearance since winning gold in the 100m breaststroke on Sunday.
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Adam Peaty knows how the start off his first Olympics with a bang.
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"Got the triple double which is a massive thing for me," said Peaty.
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Then they scrape away the shallow layer of leafy, peaty topsoil called muskeg.
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Peaty described that as "an absolute joke" in comments to the Australian newspaper.
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British swimmer Adam Peaty had a very eventful weekend at his first Olympic Games.
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Nearly half the fires during 2015's prolonged dry season were on peaty soil.
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"That used to be my drink – a peaty Talisker, or a Laphroaig," he said.
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Japan's Yasuhiro Koseki set the second-fastest time in the heats, 1.36 seconds behind Peaty.
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"It's the dawn of a new age for many sports, not just swimming," said Peaty.
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"I've never flown before, never been further than France," Caroline Peaty told the Radio Times.
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She loved its smoky, peaty flavor, and almost guessed the exact bottle on the nose.
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It tasted like eggnog made with peaty Scotch and is famed for its aphrodisiacal qualities.
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Peaty soil is particularly flammable when dry, often causing fires to spread beyond their intended areas.
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Ancient peaty soil is particularly flammable when dry, often causing fires to spread beyond their intended areas.
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When her Peaty won, Nan could barely contain her excitement: "My grandson has done it," she tweeted.
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That said, Peaty was still a little surprised that his grandma had become so popular on Twitter.
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Top international swimmers have expressed dismay over Sun's recent reprieve, including Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty.
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He breathes deeply of the peaty soil, so deeply you fear he will inhale a fire ant.
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Athlete Adam Peaty swims through the Great Barrier Reef as part of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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Adam Peaty won gold at the Olympics on Sunday, but it was his grandma that stole the show.
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Peaty placed first with 57.55 seconds, beating the previous world record (which he had held!) of 57.92 seconds.
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Peaty, who was not even born then, has another swim in the evening semi-finals before Sunday's final.
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However, Olympic and world breaststroke champion Adam Peaty said swimmers should have the right to express their opinion.
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However, none of that illustrious trio demolished the opposition the way Peaty has over two days in Rio.
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With team mate James Wilby taking the silver, Peaty said Britain was setting the bar in the breaststroke.
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It was left to Lilly King, Kylie Masse and Adam Peaty to take down the swimming record book.
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The big distillers may splutter that, from peaty Islay malts to smoother Speysides, Scotch has plenty of variety already.
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It remains unique among the Scottish regions in that its whiskies are characterized by smoky, peaty flavors and aromas.
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It sounds musical, guttural, dark and rich, the aural equivalent of a peaty Scotch or a towering cumulonimbus cloud.
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Before heading out to Rio, Peaty referred to his four-door car as "the pocket rocket" after getting it remapped.
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Still only 21, Peaty came into the Games as a world, European and Commonwealth champion and the world record holder.
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St. Patrick whisky, a single malt aged five years, is slightly peaty, certified 100-percent Moselle, and bottled in Metz.
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Britain, the Olympic silver medalists, could scupper Dressel's hopes, with Adam Peaty also expected to be included in their final quartet.
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Peaty is extremely close to his family, so much so that he continues to still live at home with his parents.
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Peaty said the 'no dopers' policy meant the ISL meets could be the cleanest international events of his career to date.
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Murdoch was the last swimmer to beat Peaty over 100m when the Briton pipped him at the British Championships in 2014.
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Some promising young swimmers are coming through the system now—Adam Peaty and James Guy both became world champions last year.
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Swimming well ahead of the field in smooth water, Peaty clocked a 57.55 to lower his year-old record of 57.92.
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The breaststroker Cody Miller did his best to stay close to his British counterpart, Adam Peaty, who split a blistering 56.59.
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Peaty cruised away from Cameron va der Burgh of South Africa, the defending Olympic champion, who took the silver in 58.69.
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Despite being a big hope for gold, Peaty said he had taken nothing for granted despite being world champion at the distance.
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"He's done it," Zair tweeted following the race, showing her with Peaty and his family with his gold medal around her neck.
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Peaty soil, found in many parts of Indonesia, is particularly flammable when dry, often causing fires to spread beyond their intended areas.
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Peaty, Britain's breaststroke lion with the tattoo to match, broke two 50 breaststroke marks — one in the preliminaries, another in the semifinals.
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Sipping on this cocktail with smoky, peaty Scotch whisky while sniffing a singed rosemary sprig will put everyone in a cozy Thanksgiving spirit.
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Crucially, café touba is spicy instead of just spiced, with a slow burn that warms you like a shot of smoky, peaty whiskey.
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On a normal day Ledecky might have been the center of attention, but Peaty seized the limelight like a man on a mission.
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Ordering a super peaty Scotch neat at the bar is not only offensive to one's self, but to everyone in your immediate vicinity.
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After breaking the world record in the preliminaries and the semifinals, Peaty settled for the second-fastest time ever (25.99) in the final.
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Peaty set a new world record, casually beating the previous world record that he himself had set a few days before in the heat.
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Peaty, who stayed off social media leading up to the race, was surprised to learn his grandma was also making headlines around the world.
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Britain's Adam Peaty proved peerless in the 100 breaststroke once again, completing his 'Project 56' by becoming the first swimmer to breach 57 seconds.
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Records were set, with Britain's Adam Peaty sensational in the 100 breaststroke to become the first British male swimmer to win Olympic gold since 1988.
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It felt particularly sweet for Peaty as this was the venue where his career really took off when he won Commonwealth Games gold in 2014.
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The last British man to win an Olympic swimming gold was Adrian Moorhouse in the same event in 1988, six years before Peaty was born.
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Jazz Carlin took the silver medal on a great night for British swimmers, minutes after Adam Peaty had won gold in the 100 meters breaststroke.
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Next up, Peaty will compete in the 100-meter breaststroke semifinals on Saturday night and hopefully he will make it to the finals on Sunday night.
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The two world champions are part of a British team that has been growing in stature but Guy said Peaty was still in a different league.
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Britain's Olympic breaststroke champion Adam Peaty was among those scheduled to take part, despite running the potential risk of being banned from next year's world championships.
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Peaty said he was so focused on his races he did not even realize he had become the first swimmer to win six breaststroke world titles.
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Success in Rio would make Peaty the first British male swimmer to win Olympic gold since Adrian Moorhouse won the same event in Seoul in 1988.
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" Peaty, who completed a third straight 50-100m breaststroke double at the world championships, added: "Any doping in the sport is a straight no from me.
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Molly Renshaw of Britain hopes to follow in the footsteps of double world champion Adam Peaty after she topped qualifying in the women's 200m breaststroke heats.
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If shifted to 2022, that could deny British fans the chance to see current Olympic and world breaststroke champion Adam Peaty going for gold at home.
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"We have spoken to Adam Peaty and his agent, and British Swimming," Craig Hunter, vice chairman of the technical swimming committee of LEN, told reporters later.
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GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) - England's Adam Peaty swam well within his capabilities to clinch the men's 100m breaststroke at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
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The few leaves that had sprouted from the peaty soil were bright but remained whole; a new lime-green shoot spiraled into a cocoon next to them.
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The relay and 50 are not in the Olympic program but Peaty is also aiming for the 200 breaststroke, a distance he has not swum since January.
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Alongside countless shirtless photos and victorious pool pictures, Peaty also shares his love for his car – a Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG in fire engine red – on Instagram.
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Olympic breaststroke champion Peaty, who has been highly critical of Sun and FINA over the doping issue, said the changes were "meaningless" and that swimmers needed representation.
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Adam Peaty may have claimed Britain's first Rio Olympics gold medal with a record-breaking swim, but his grandmother has struck gold thanks to her social media presence.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Adam Peaty rooms with James Guy at the Rio Olympics but Britain's big swimming hope clearly pays no attention to his team mate's advice.
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Peaty and Zair haven't given away much information about their relationship, but he told Radio Times that he likes to spend time with his girlfriend in his downtime.
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Peaty previously set the record for the race in a gold medal-winning performance at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, with a time of 57.13.
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"Looking good for next year and all ready for what comes with a bunch of four lads who are young but gathering experience," said Peaty after the relay.
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The day's record spree began with Britain's Adam Peaty, who broke his own world mark of 12 in the heats of the 100 breaststroke when he clocked 57.55.
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Adam Peaty, an Olympic gold medalist who holds two breaststroke world records, accused swimming's leaders of being more preoccupied with their privileged lifestyles than with developing the sport.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic champion Adam Peaty swam the fastest 100m breaststroke of the year on his way to winning gold in the British championships in Glasgow on Tuesday.
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Russia's track and field team could miss the Olympics if the country fails to overturn the ban but Peaty was against blaming entire nations for the alleged swimming problems.
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Not only did Adam Peaty win gold in the men's 100m breaststroke, but he also beat the person who came in second by over a second-and-a-half.
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Swimming phenom Adam Peaty beat his own record time for the men's 100-meter breaststroke early Sunday, becoming the first man to finish the race in under 57 seconds.
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Peaty blasted off the blocks and brought a huge roar from the crowd when his 50 meter split time of 26.63 showed he was on course for the record.
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Peaty also says that while records, medals and titles are important, he needs to keep himself grounded in what made him get into competitive swimming in the first place.
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Breaststroke world record holder Peaty took 45.8% of the vote among the men, with Hungarian Kristof Milak, the reigning 200m butterfly world champion and record holder, second on 16.7%.
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The 230-year-old grandmother even stayed up until the early hours of Monday to watch Peaty dominate the men's 22016-meter breaststroke and break his own world record – twice.
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Britain's world champion Adam Peaty completed a breaststroke sprint double, defending his 50m title after winning the 100m earlier in the week and also taking gold in the mixed medley.
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Smoky, peaty scotch is already thematically on point for a warming winter cocktail, but combine that with cider, cinnamon, and maple syrup, and you've checked all the winter-flavor boxes.
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Defending Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa was seventh, 1.8 seconds adrift of Peaty, and will have his work cut out in the semis and in Sunday's final.
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Britain took the relay silver, with 100 breaststroke champion Adam Peaty swimming a storming second leg to haul his team up from sixth place to first, and Australia won the bronze.
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First, Scotch is combined with Chartreuse; then the mixture is sprayed with a peaty tincture and placed under a bell jar, which a bartender proceeds to pump full of wood smoke.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Out-of-competition anti-doping procedures need tightening up, but the stance of Chinese swimming champion Sun Yang will not wash, Olympic gold medalist Adam Peaty said on Friday.
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Peaty set a new mark of 57.55 seconds - cutting 0.37 from his previous record, set in London last year - and said he hoped to shave off some more in Saturday's semi-finals.
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The men's 100m breaststroke and women's 100 meters butterfly are Sunday's other medal races, with Britain's Adam Peaty the man to beat in the former after smashing his world record on Saturday.
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GLASGOW (Reuters) - Adam Peaty and Sarah Sjoestroem again demonstrated why they are the stand-out swimmers at the European Championships as they torpedoed to their third golds of the week on Wednesday.
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Peaty, the 50 and 100 meter breaststroke world record holder who won three golds at last year's world championships in Russia, said testing needed to be weekly to prove the sport was clean.
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Van der Burgh's upset of Peaty was not the only surprise on day five at the pool, with Bronte Campbell also swimming down older sister Cate to win the blue riband 100m freestyle.
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His team mate Adam Peaty, who swam in the 50 breaststroke semi-finals, said Scott was "completely right" to take action on the podium, adding that Sun should consider his place in swimming.
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Britain's Adam Peaty, who won the 100 breaststroke gold on Monday, was fastest in the semi-finals of the 50 and will look to complete a third straight 50/100 double on Wednesday.
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Adam Peaty of Britain won the gold medal in the men's 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 57.13 seconds, shattering the mark of 57.55 he set one day earlier in the preliminaries.
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Other notable bottles included the fresh, chewy Ballantine's Finest, the smooth and spicy White Horse, the creamy J & B Rare, the gently peaty Dewar's White Label and the concentrated John Begg Blue Cap.
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The menu focused on Golden Era cocktails like the martinez and the boulevardier, with interesting variations like the smoke, blood & sand, a house twist on the classic blood & sand that added peaty Laphroaig.
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Swimming earlier, Hosszu might have beaten Peaty to the honor of setting the first record in Rio but eased off in the women's 20123 meter individual medley just as it was in her sights.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A new professional league launching this year will reward clean swimmers and see more of them make millions for their efforts, Britain's Olympic and world breaststroke champion Adam Peaty said on Wednesday.
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Le Clos' third gold of the meeting was followed by Cameron van der Burgh's upset of world record holder Adam Peaty in the men's 220 metres breaststroke and Tatjana Schoenmaker winning the 100m breaststroke.
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"I wasn't even looking to qualify," said Peaty, who is the world record holder in 100m breaststroke and is hoping to become the first British male swimmer to win Olympic gold in 28 years.
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Oil-palm trees look like the coconut-palm trees you see on postcards from Florida — they grow to more than 60 feet tall and flourish on the peaty wetland soil common in lowland tropics.
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LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Olympic and world champions Adam Peaty of Britain and Hungarian Katinka Hosszu have been voted the best swimmers in Europe by national federations and officials of European governing body LEN.
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Appreciating fine dark chocolate can be something like appreciating extremely peaty scotch, and someone who grew up eating Hershey bars might prefer — not unreasonably — a taste that an expert would criticize for its blandness.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Triple world champion Adam Peaty booked his place at the Rio Games by winning the 100 meters breaststroke at the British Olympic trials in Glasgow in a time of 58.41 seconds on Tuesday.
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Guy, the 200 meters freestyle world champion, recalled on Sunday what he told Peaty before the 21-year-old Briton ripped up his own 100 meters breaststroke world record on his Games debut on Saturday.
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Peaty, who also holds the world record in the 50 but suffered his first defeat in four years in the event at last year's Commonwealth Games, says every race makes him stronger — win or lose.
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Briton Peaty added more luster to his reputation as perhaps the world's most dominant swimmer when he smashed his own 2100 meters breaststroke mark in 250 seconds en route to his 223.74th major gold medal.
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On the program's penultimate day, Peaty, already a world record breaker in the 100 meters breaststroke and part of Britain's winning mixed 4x5003m medley team, scattered the 50m breaststroke field in a Championship record 26.09 seconds.
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The descendants of those levees wall the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers today — and the peaty land of the islands behind them has subsided to a depth which in places hits 26ft/8m below sea level.
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Peaty, who rose to stardom in Britain thanks to gold medal success at the Rio Olympics, added that his six-figure income was well below what athletes of a similar standard in other sports could earn.
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Defending champion Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa, whose 19803 world record Peaty took in April 2015, had to settle for silver in 58.69 and Cody Miller of the United States won the bronze in 58.87.
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"It's more of an idea than a thing; The idea of performing at an Olympics and being one of the best in the world, and that pool is the idea," Peaty said after this year's European championships.
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Peaty, unbeaten in the event at major championships over the last five years, finished in a time of 57.14 — more than a second ahead of compatriot James Wilby (58.46) and bronze medallist Yan Zibei (58.63) of China.
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Amin has banked a wealth of experience at these championships by seeking out swimming's top names to ask them for advice on her technique, particularly her heroes American Katie Ledecky, Katinka Hosszu of Hungary and Britain's Adam Peaty.
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Head coach at the City of Derby swimming club, the two times Olympian saw the promise of the Uttoxeter schoolboy and Peaty recognizes the debt he owes her and the fact they can have "a good laugh" together.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Britain's Adam Peaty smashed his own 4003 meters breaststroke world record and Hungary's 'Iron Lady' Katinka Hosszu had another in her sights on an explosive opening day in the pool at the Rio Olympics.
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Peaty, who was announced on Wednesday as an ISL ambassador and member of a planned London team that also includes Australian Olympic champions Cate and Bronte Campbell and Kyle Chalmers, saw that as the tip of the iceberg.
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The controversy overshadowed an incredible night in the pool, where Briton Adam Peaty became the first to swim the 2100m breaststroke in under 20163 seconds and Australian teen Ariarne Titmus ended Katie Ledecky's reign in the 22016m freestyle.
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Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom extended Saturday's record spree in winning the 100 meters butterfly, and Peaty and Ledecky followed suit in the next two finals before the U.S. men's team, with Phelps swimming second, took the 4x100 freestyle relay.
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Head coach at the City of Derby swimming club, the two times Olympian saw the promise of the Uttoxeter schoolboy and Peaty recognizes the debt he owes her and the fact they can have "a good laugh" together.
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Peaty had swum a Commonwealth Games record 58.59 on Friday but appeared to be content to just win the race rather than challenge his own world record of 57.13 that he set at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
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"It's surreal to get Team GB's first gold but this is a product of seven years' hard work," said Peaty, who showed no nerves as he walked out and calmly stripped down for the biggest race of his life.
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Peaty is the country's first male Olympic swimming gold medalist for 28 years and only the fourth in last 100 years, following on from David Wilkie (1976) Duncan Goodhew (1980) and Adrian Moorhouse (1998) - all four of them breaststrokers.
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Chad le Clos and Tatjana Schoenmaker gave South Africa two gold medals, while England's Adam Peaty continued his four-year unbeaten run in the men's 2200m breaststroke and Canada's Kylie Masse held off Emily Seebohm in the 250m backstroke.
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In addition to tweeting encouragement to Peaty and the other members of Team Great Britain, Williams has shared photos of her #TeamPeaty outfit, house decked out with the Union Jack and even getting her nails done in her grandson's honor.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Adam Peaty smashed his own world record for the second time in two days on Sunday to win 100 meters breaststroke gold and become the first British male swimmer in 28 years to win an Olympic title.
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Peaty, who completed a third straight 50/100m breaststroke double, came home in a time of 26.06 — the third fastest ever and more than half a second quicker than silver medallist Felipe Lima (26.66) with Joao Gomes Junior third (26.69).
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Britain's Adam Peaty became the first to swim the 100 meters breaststroke in under 57 seconds on Sunday, setting a world record of 56.88 in the semi-finals of the world championships in Gwangju, South Korea.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Every Olympics has its breakthrough moments and for Adam Peaty, the big gold medal hope of British swimming, one of them will be getting his mum on a plane for the first time in her life.
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GLASGOW (Reuters) - Adam Peaty and Kliment Kolesnikov made it a landmark night at the inaugural multi-sport European Championships when the two swimming prodigies broke world records to strike gold in the space of just over an hour on Saturday.
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" British Olympic and world champion swimmer Adam Peaty said: "So the Canadians have pulled out of the Olympics and the Australians said they won't travel if the Olympics are held this summer, @WorldAthletics have also put pressure on IOC to move.
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The distillery's Brigantia line of single malts has seen recent success, with a version finished in an Islay cask from Scotland, famous for producing pungent, smoky and peaty whiskeys, taking home a silver medal at Germany's Best Whisky Awards in 2018.
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At MaLa Project in the East Village, they're listed on the menu as "Rooster's XXX," but they're not particularly shocking to eat: They taste creamy and almost peaty, like wayward eggs, without the profound funk of intestine or other nether parts.
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The European Swimming League (LEN) have apologised to Peaty and other affected athletes, a senior LEN official said later on Sunday, adding that he could see no reason why the record would not be ratified by the sport's governing body FINA.
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Copacabana debut delights fans despite queues Table tennis-Youngest U.S. Olympian suffers opening round defeat Boxing-Tommasone makes boxing history as first Games professional Swimming-Starting lists rewritten as banned Russians return Huge queues and angry fans mar the start of Rio Games Rowing-Rough start on Rio lagoon Shooting-American teenager Thrasher wins first gold of Games 1824 BRITAIN'S PEATY BREAKS OWN WORLD RECORD IN 100M BREASTSTROKE Britain's Adam Peaty set a world record of 2083 seconds in the men's 100 metres breaststroke heats at the Rio Olympics on Saturday, beating his own mark of 57.92 set in London last year.
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Fastest off the blocks, Peaty made the turn 0.08 of a second inside world record pace and powered down the final 50 like a man determined to exceed the expectations that have built since he won three golds at last year's world championships.
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British swimmer Adam Peaty, who set a 100 meters breaststroke world record of 57.92 seconds in London last year, said the psychological factor of swimmers going fast because they know the pool is state-of-the-art was not to be underestimated.
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Hungarian teenager Kristof Milak shattered Michael Phelps' 10-year-old world record in the 200 meters butterfly on Wednesday while Adam Peaty sewed up a third straight breaststroke double with victory in the 50 meters at the world championships.
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Peaty shattered a record of his own on Sunday, becoming the first swimmer to go under 0.023 seconds in the 20.02 breaststroke semi-finals and while he could not repeat the feat in the 24 he was still streets ahead of his rivals.
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Adam Peaty collected his third straight 100 metres breaststroke world title on Monday but such is the Briton's dominance in the event that he had to remind himself to enjoy the moment despite not breaking the world record.
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The Europeans will get in on the act, with Britain's breaststroke world champion Adam Peaty and 200m free world champion James Guy hoping to succeed for a country that has not had a male Olympic swimming gold medalist since Adrian Moorhouse in 1988.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Adam Peaty demolished his own world record in the heats of the 100 meters breaststroke on Saturday as he launched a bid to become the first British man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal for 28 years.
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Olympic and world champion breaststroker Adam Peaty will lead a fired-up England squad, while the rejuvenated Canadian women's team that includes 100m backstroke world record holder Kylie Masse and 100m freestyle Olympic champion Penny Oleksiak are expected to provide some thrilling racing.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Adam Peaty smashed his own world record for the second time in two days on Sunday to win 100 metres breaststroke gold and become the first British male swimmer in 28 years to win an Olympic title.
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The 23-year-old Peaty, who has labeled his ambitions to crack 57 seconds for the race as Project 56, clocked 58.84 seconds to beat fast-finishing compatriot James Wilby to defend the Commonwealth Games title he won in Glasgow four years ago.
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" British Olympic and world champion swimmer Adam Peaty wrote on Twitter: "So the Canadians have pulled out of the Olympics and the Australians said they won't travel if the Olympics are held this summer, @WorldAthletics have also put pressure on IOC to move.
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Losing is not something Adam Peaty does, or thinks about, very often but even if the Olympic breaststroke champion comes up short at the world swimming championships in South Korea it is unlikely to dent his confidence one little bit.
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A night after becoming the first swimmer to go under the 'Magic 57' mark in the men's 100 meters breaststroke, Peaty cruised to his third straight gold in the event, though his time — 503 — was off his world record of 56.88 set in Sunday's semis.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Michael Phelps picked up his 20.02th gold medal on a second night of world records in the Olympic pool, with Katie Ledecky cruising to women's 400 meters freestyle victory and Britain's Adam Peaty running away with the men's 100 breaststroke.
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The Scottish influence is most resplendent, however, in the abundance of whiskeys, which an obliging bartender will nimbly clamber up the shelves to fetch, before serving cocktails like the peaty Blackberry Tartan (whiskey, blackberry compote, walnut bitters) and the Krankie (rosemary-infused bourbon, tamarind purée).
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Many sportsmen say they 'can't believe it' in the moment of achieving their lifetime goal but in the case of Adam Peaty, who posted another world record and won Britain's Rio first gold on Sunday, it seemed like he really meant it.
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Peaty has been hammering away at the 'Magic 2400' mark over the last couple of years, setting a world record of 210 in Glasgow in 2018, and while he was confident he could always go lower even he was stunned at swimming 56.88 in the semi-finals.
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Britain's Adam Peaty has said a new rule aimed at preventing a repeat of the podium protests that have shook up the world championships in Gwangju will not stop him speaking out on issues such as doping, The Times reported on Thursday.
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Three of the most dominant swimmers in the world took center stage at the world championships on Monday but only Adam Peaty and Katinka Hosszu maintained their aura of invincibility while Sarah Sjostrom's reign in the 100m butterfly came to an end.
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A night earlier Peaty had become the first swimmer to go under the 'Magic 57' mark by posting a world record 56.88 in the semi-finals and while the Briton was on course to set another new mark at the halfway point, he faded on the home stretch.
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GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - There were seven other swimmers standing on the blocks when Adam Peaty plunged into the pool for the 50 meters breaststroke final on Wednesday but in truth it was the clock the Briton was racing as he swept to gold at the world championships.
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Peaty again demonstrated why he may well be the most dominant swimmer in the sport as he recovered from a relatively sluggish start to get on terms by half-way before powering away over the final 25 meters to beat Italy's Fabio Scozzoli by a huge 0.7 seconds.
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And if you're having trouble keeping track of all the world records and first-ever happenings down in Rio – we don't blame you, there's been a lot – we've compiled all the data (so far!) SwimmingWorld Records Broken:Adam Peaty of Team Great Britain set a world record in the Men's 100 meter breaststroke twice, first with a time of 57.55 in the heats and then with a time of 57.13 in the final.
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Swimming-Peaty smashes own 100m breaststroke record Gymnastics-Frenchman Ait Said suffers horror break in qualifying Cycling-van Avermaet wins thrilling gold in men's road race Gymnastics-Tears and cheers as Zanetti and Hypolito shine Police detonate backpack near finish line of Rio Olympic cycling race Swimming-Park fails to qualify for 400 freestyle finals Water polo-Serbia hit back for dramatic draw with Hungary Beach volleyball-Winning start for Brazil delights partisan crowd Hockey-Hockey grapples with Olympics 'wake up call' in Rio Gymnastics-Uchimura fall caps a day of errors for favourites Japan Judo-Brazil hopes dashed for early first Rio gold Beach volleyball-So Brazil!
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