Adam Peaty sets huge LA 2028 Olympics target with blunt message to American rivals

Three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty is targeting FOUR more medals at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, with Team GB wanting to "beat America on home turf". The 2028 Games will be Peaty's fourth and he would make history if he won another gold, becoming the oldest British swimmer to do so.

And Peaty will have an extra opportunity to win after the 50m breaststroke sprint was added to the Olympics.

"I'm very excited the 50m has been added but I will do the 100m as well, so that will give me four opportunities to [win a] medal," he told BBC Radio 5 Live. "We want to beat America on home turf in that medley. We've got the incredible Oliver Morgan on backstroke and that's always been our weak link at previous Olympics. It's very exciting."

Peaty had been weighing up retirement after the Paris Olympics, having been denied a third 100m breaststroke gold medal by just 0.02 seconds, but he has decided to continue and target the LA Games.

"I've won six Olympic medals so far, three of them gold, and I'm still a world record holder," he told Mirror Sport in December. "I would be a very miscalculating and misguided individual if I ever thought that was a bad thing, and I still stand by what I said on the night in Paris.

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"I still won, because I could have finished nowhere and it could have been a whole lot worse. It's wishful thinking that I could have found an extra 0.03 seconds of speed to turn my silver into gold if I hadn't been going down with Covid, and the winning time was pretty slow for a showpiece Olympic race.

"You can't worry too much about what could have been because that's not a healthy way to live. Maybe the illness took more out of me than it should have, but on another day I could have missed out altogether.

"There is still a lot of hurt there because of certain things that happened, because of the illness, and so there is a bit of anger. In life you have to take the losses with the wins, and in my career I’ve never taken success for granted.

"I've absolutely loved the last few months, especially in terms of the food aspect - being able to eat what I want - and I've been very busy running clinics for younger kids, working on projects in Saudi Arabia and doing corporate events as a motivational speaker.

"A lot of athletes retire and look around wondering, 'What do I do now?' I'm trying to give myself a taste of what life might look like when I do stop competing in the pool. But after a decade in the limelight as a professional swimmer, I haven't gone out of my way to make too many changes."

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