Adam Peaty loses but has found something more valuable than Olympic gold

For more than 10 minutes in a temporary corridor somewhere in Paris’ La Defense Arena, before the sore throat which in all probability cost him a third Olympic 100 metre breaststroke gold eventually got the better of his vocal chords, Britain’s greatest ever swimmer stood, his face wet with tears, trying to find the words to sum up the last hour, the last 14 months, the last decade.