Why aren't we talking more about Adam Peaty?

The Swimming World Championships took place this week in Hungary with Team GB looking to build on a very successful 2016 Olympics campaign. 

The only person anyone from Britain was interested in this week, however, was Adam Peaty. Olympic Gold Medalist and now 4-time World Champion, Peaty still has a long career ahead. But do we give him the credit he deserves? 

In just three short years, Adam Peaty has dominated his discipline, 50 and 100 metre breaststroke, winning 16 major titles. And he's only getting better. His dominance doesn't just stop at the titles. He now has the world record in both race formats. The man is an absolute monster in the water, or fish would be a better term. 

And he doesn't just hold top spot. Unbelievably, Adam's name litters the top 10 times ever in the 100m breaststroke, whilst also having the best six times in the 50m version of the race. That's a dominance that not even Bolt or Phelps can claim to have in their individual sports! It's as if he is simply getting into the water to race his former-selves. 

These kinds of achievements put him comfortably at the top of the greatest British swimmer list, and he has surely begun to climb onto the international list now?

He has just began Project 56, his mission to become the first man to swim 100m breaststroke in under 57 seconds. It's very, very doable. He has been smashing his own world record over and over again. Sooner or later there aren't going to be enough numbers left in the 57 second bracket to keep him from dropping under.

Peaty's workouts are like none I have seen before. For a taster of what he puts himself through, give the video below a watch (a video by BBC Sport). 

But yet, when I look at the odds for this year's Sports Personality of the Year award, he sits further down the list than someone with his achievements should be. 

It's been a tough few years for anyone going for that award. Andy Murray has made the award his own, and rightfully so considering his rise to world number one.

But the likes of Adam Peaty, and 4-time Tour de France winner, Chris Froome, have has a similar dominance in their own sports, and don't seem to be winning the prestigious award any time soon.

Award aside, more people need to be talking about Adam's success. In the world of swimming, everyone knows how good he is, how much better he can get. Outside of swimming, people may know his name, but I don't think people are that aware of how amazing his achievements are. 

The BBC wrote an article recently, following Chris Froome's latest Tour de France, about how Chris Froome is Britain's least loved greatest sportsman, an interesting read and an article I completely agree with. To some extent, Adam Peaty is in a similar boat. He is far from least loved, but his achievements are certainly not celebrated as much as his fellow sportsman. 

This is also without mentioning, until now, that he was petrified of water at an early age! 

Adam Peaty will without a doubt become one of the greatest swimmers, or even athletes, of all time. I just hope that his achievements don't swim under the radar...

A. Weavers

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