Commonwealth Games: Swimming legend Foster backing Peaty to continue domination

Six-time British world champion Mark Foster is convinced English swimming prodigy Adam Peaty has ‘got the lot’ and is expecting the young swimmer to bring home gold from the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Olympic champion Peaty will be competing at the Commonwealths on Australia’s Gold Coast, starting next week, alongside 392 teammates from Team England.

Peaty, 23, is also the current world, European, British and Commonwealth champion in the 100m breaststroke, as well as the world record holder, but Foster still doesn’t believe Peaty gets enough recognition.

“Adam (Peaty) is just a phenomenon, and I hope he gets more accolades,” said Foster, 47.

“He’s been up for BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year a couple of times now.

“I’ve said it a lot but the guy is just awesome and I don’t think people quite get how good he is.

“When you watch his swimming and you see how much he dominates breaststroke races by, he has taken breaststroke racing to another place.

“He swims it completely different to other people and he broke the world record by a second (Rio Olympics 2016), over a second, in an event that’s a minute long.

“You see races won by hundredths or won by tenths, and he will reign for a long time, as long as he continues to swim well and doesn’t get injured he will.”

And Foster, who himself competed at five Olympic Games, is hoping that we get to see much more of Peaty in future.

“I hope he competes for another two Olympic Games because that keeps me in a job for another two Olympic Games!” Said Foster, a Beijing 2008 Olympics flagbearer.

“He’ll dominate! And what I like to see about Adam is it’s not about who’s going to win the race it’s about what time he’s going to do and he’s got the right attitude.

“Clearly he’s physically got everything, he’s got the lot.”

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