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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: There is a message on the big screen at Loughborough University which reads: 'Welcome to the pool of dreams.' But for the man celebrated on a giant banner behind the blocks, this place was also the scene of a nightmare. It was on a Thursday morning last March that Adam Peaty reached breaking point in the pool, his goggles filling up with tears at the start of a routine swim. For the first time he can remember, he cut short his session and continued to cry in the shower. The triple Olympic champion then drove away from his training base not knowing whether he would ever return. 'I had been trying to fight that inside voice every single day, but that day it got the best of me,' says Peaty, sitting with Mail Sport where he had his breakdown 16 months ago. 'I did 25 metres breaststroke, and I was like, "That's it. Done. Don't care. Put it to bed".