Team GB Olympic legend Adam Peaty, 31, to compete under NEW NAME for first time at Commonwealth Games

ADAM RAMSAY-PEATY has his heart set on christening his new moniker with Commonwealth Games glory this month. It is a case of new name and new training base for the three-time Olympic swimming champion as he gears for a return to Glasgow. Adam Peaty is set to compete under his new name for the first time Credit: Getty Adam Peaty-Ramsay will take to the pool after marrying Holly Ramsay Credit: Getty It was in the city 12 years ago where he won his first of four Commonwealth titles and he is looking to add to that tally this weekend in a major staging post before the LA 2028 Olympics. Britain’s best-ever swimmer is using the full name Adam Ramsay-Peaty for the first time at a major champs after marrying chef Gordon Ramsay’s daughter Holly last December. Sign up for the Sport newsletter Thank you! And that is not the only shake-up in his life of late, having relocated from Loughborough to London, along with all its joys and flaws. Getting around the capital to two training hubs – the Chelsea and Westminster Swimming Club and then London Aquatics Centre in East London – mean plenty of encounters with pushy Londoners. Ramsay-Peaty said: “Some of my sessions, I drive to Kennington and then I get the tube to LAC because it’s quicker. I go to Oxford Circus on the Central Line. “You know when you see those tubes that come and they’re just jammed. Like the backpack against the window is squished. “One day, I was like ‘brilliant’. I found a door, got in and I took myself into a corner. “I literally was like this, squashed up, for about 10 minutes. And whilst I was in that position, another guy thought it was a good idea to squish in even more. Most read in Sport CASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS Holly is the daughter of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay Credit: Getty “Then he was looking at me like it was my fault. And this is what annoys me about the tube. “Guys, we do not need to jam in. The next train is a minute away. But yeah, it’s a great way to get around. “I actually really enjoy that kind of (travel). You think about other people and what they’re going through in their day. It’s just a good stimulus.” London is a world away from his country roots in Uttoxeter in Staffordshire but then he is more than a swimmer these days, both a celebrity and sporting icon. Yet he has a complicated history with the Commonwealth Games, which he says “always tests me”. A fourth-place finish four years ago in Birmingham in his “baby” event, the men’s 100 metres breaststroke, was a painful one, not only because he was recovering from a broken foot. That heartbreaking defeat, he says, “led me to a breakdown and really looking at the purpose of why I do it”. This will be his first major international event since the Paris 2024 Olympics where he claimed silver in his signature event. The couple have enjoyed a quiet few months after their marriage Credit: Instagram/@hollyramsaypeaty Now Peaty-Ramsay’s attention is turning back towards Commonwealth Games glory Credit: Getty In total, he has four golds and three silvers from his previous three Commonwealth appearances. And he could become the first Team England swimmer to win four consecutive gold medals – he will go in the 50 and 100 metres breaststroke races. Speaking in a YouTube video log, Peaty said: “For me, I’ve always enjoyed pressure. “It spikes my nerves and for me, I enjoy the adrenaline from that. So I never look at pressure as a negative. I’m trying to always push that into a positive. “Tools that I’ve used, it could be visualisation, it could be breathing work, it could be thinking of happy things in the call room. “It could be relying on your processes, relying on your training. “Because performance under pressure is actually the level that you’re going to revert to when you are under pressure. So you have to train for that. “How does it feel to be a three-time Olympic champion? Pretty good. “But with that, I’m always looking at trying for my next one in LA. “I guess when you win the Olympics, yes, you have this moment of relief. And you’re obviously very proud of yourself and the achievements are incredible. “But at the same time, we’re geared or engineered or made in a way which is always about: ‘Okay, what’s next? What’s the next goal?’ And that goalpost is always shifting.” Comment now