Adam Ramsay-Peaty ready for 'full-circle' moment at Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games - 'The more pressure I'm under, the better I perform'
Published 22/07/2026 at 08:34 GMT+1
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Adam Ramsay-Peaty is ready for his first major championships - the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games - since racing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where he took silver in the 100m breaststroke, missing out on gold by just 0.02s.
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The swimming star is getting ready for what he calls a ”full-circle moment” by racing at Glasgow 2026, where he will be one of the biggest names competing for England.Â
His return to the global stage marks a countdown to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics too, with Ramsay-Peaty keen to go again at the Olympics now that his favoured 50m breaststroke event has been added to the schedule.
But first comes Glasgow 2026 - live on TNT Sports and HBO Max - and all the scrutiny that comes with competing on the world stage.
”Pressure can be given to anyone, but it’s probably best in my hands because the more pressure I’m under, the better I perform,” he told The Independent.Â
”At the same time, you need a strategy for managing the noise, and we probably haven’t done that as well as we could, but I’ll make sure the swimming does the talking.
”We can’t control every variable in life, but I can stand behind the blocks and not really care about what people’s opinions are.
”Being at peace with a 100m or 50m breaststroke race is a beautiful place to be. Nothing else matters in that moment.
”That’s the beauty of sport. If you can find that state of mind, it’s an incredible place to be.
”That’s the Adam people should see – the racer. Everything else is my private life.”
Ramsay-Peaty competed at Glasgow 2014, the Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022 in the Commonwealth Games, and has four golds and three silvers to his name across the 100m breaststroke, 50m breaststroke and relay medley events.Â
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The Glasgow 2014 Games was his first major event, which he followed with the European Championships and World Championships later the same year. As such, it is easy to see why the Games matter so much to him.Â
”If my career was a book, the Commonwealth Games would be very definitive chapters,” he said.
”Now we’re towards the back of the book and I know that, so I want to make sure the book is written the way I want it.
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”I’d like to get to Glasgow as a full-circle moment from my first one in 2014, when I beat Cameron van der Burgh, and see what we can come away with.”
Ramsay-Peaty is very aware of how Paris 2024 went for him, when he took to the pool as favourite for the 100m breaststroke title. There were extenuating circumstances surrounding his fitness - with a bout of Covid-19 derailing his efforts.
But with the benefit of hindsight, the swimmer can be philosophical about how those Games went for him, as he begins to build for another tilt at Olympic glory in Los Angeles - not that medals and results are the be all and end all for the 31-year-old.Â
”I want these Commonwealth Games to be a springboard and to come away confident in my ability to race the best in the work,” he added.
”Paris 2024 was bittersweet. I’d spent 18 months getting back after the breakdown and a difficult period in 2023. I was in a great place physically, but then I caught Covid just before the championships.
”Now it’s about putting that right. Did ego play a part? Did complacency play a part in 2024? Potentially.
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”But now it’s about bringing everything back down, focusing on the details and enhancing the performance.
”As an athlete, I see the sport completely differently now. I don’t see success as medals any more. That’s not defeatist, it’s probably the opposite.
”Success for me is coming away from Glasgow knowing I’ve done absolutely everything I possibly could to finish as high as I can. If I look after the process, the outcome will take care of itself.”
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