Swimming – 17th FINA World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100m Breaststroke awarding ceremony – Budapest, Hungary – July 24, 2017 – Adam Peaty of Britain (gold) poses with the medal. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Last August in Rio, Adam Peaty's coach Mel Marshall compared the wait of watching her charge swimming away with the Olympic 100 metres breaststroke gold to that of giving birth.
Nearly one year on, the 22-year-old Peaty delivered on the global stage again after a routine victory in the same discipline at the world championships.
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