British swimmer Adam Peaty has arrived back on British soil to a heroes welcome alongside all the other Team GB winners.
Footage showed the team members, who won a total of eight medals, embracing their friends and family as they left Heathrow Airport after arriving back from Tokyo 2020.
Peaty won two gold and a silver including retaining his men's 100 metres breaststroke title, as Team GB eclipsed their previous best of seven medals at the 1908 Games.
The 26-year-old spoke at a press conference to say how the key to the team's success was the 'brotherhood' the athletes created.
He said: 'I've been pushing for so long and broken a world record every single year since 2014 so it's like an outrageous amount of effort not just from me but everyone behind me.
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'It's been a huge journey so to be part of this team is extremely special, I'm very proud to be able to say I'm on the team with them.
'People are scared to race us now, it's been so long since we've done so well.'
The swimmer, from Uttoxeter, referenced the moment where James Guy cried as another of his teammates won and said: 'Obviously Jimmy started crying but that's the amount of passion you want from your teammates.
'If you don't care then what's the point of being on the team. If you don't cry at their success then you don't deserve to be on their team so I think that's the most special thing about us.
'We have a brotherhood. No other team has got that.'
He added that the team is already looking ahead to Paris 2024 and said: 'Going into Paris we're going to look at fine tuning, how can we beat America - they've never lost that race.
'We're a small nation going against America so we're going to try and do our best.'
The swimming champion also noted that he thinks the team has more belief in itself.
He said: 'You've got to be going out there and take your chin up and think I'm representing Great Britain and going for the win.
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