Chris Hoy or Sir Christopher Hoy was born on the 23rd of March in the year 1976. He was born in Edinburgh in Scotland and is a British professional cyclist and races for Great Britain and Scotland. Chris Hoy has won the World Championship several times and is also an Olympic hero in the sport of cycling. He won in total three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics held in the year 2008. With this tremendous performance, he became Scotland’s most successful athlete at the Olympics. Chris Hoy is also the most successful male cyclist of all time at the Olympics.
The 1982 film E.T the Extra Terrestrial inspired Chris Hoy to cycle. He was then a mere six year old boy. Between the age of seven and fourteen, Chris Hoy raced for BMX and was ranked two in Britain, ninth in the World and seventh in the whole of Europe. He then received a scholarship from Kwik-Fit and Slazenger to compete in the United States and in Europe. Chris Hoy was also into rowing and rugby as a student. The fist cycling club that he ever joined was Dunedin CC in the year 1992. Chris Hoy then started focusing on only track cycling from the year 1994 joining the City of Edinburgh Racing Club. Chris Hoy’s main events included the Team Sprint and the one kilometre Time Trial. It was Team Sprint that brought him his very first World Championship medal. His team came second in the year 1999. The first World Title for his team came in the year 2002 at Copenhagen in the Ballerup Velodrome. He also won the one kilometre time trial that same very year beating Arnaud Tournant. Their main competitors in the recent years have been the team from France.
Chris Hoy was the number one cyclist in the one kilometre Time Trial for many years but stopped taking part in it after it was removed from the Olympic Schedule. Chris Hoy won his first World Title in the year 2002 and then again won it in the years 2004, 2006 and 2007. His first Olympic title came at the 2004 Olympics. After the Kilo was removed from the Olympic Schedule, Chris Hoy started focusing on other aspects of cycling. He started specializing in the Keirin. His first success at this event came at the Manchester round in the year 2007 at the World Cup Classics Series. His form continued to the World Championships where he bagged the gold medal. This showed his true class as he mastered a different new event and won the World Championships. In the year 2007, Chris Hoy attempted to break the World Record for the kilometre. He came very close but fell short by a mere 0.005 seconds.
Chris Hoy did not race at the World Cup Classics Event at Manchester as he chose to commentate with the BBC and sign autographs. He made a comeback at the Revolution 22 event in Manchester in the month of December. He was acknowledged by the crowd with a standing ovation, a gesture truly deserved by one of the most successful cyclists of all time, Chris Hoy.
He might just be one Olympic Gold medal away from Sir Steve Redgrave’s record of being the most decorated athlete in the history of the Olympic Games, but according to Carol, the mother of Sir Chris Hoy, he used to ride a girl’s bike in his youth. The 36 year old Scotsman already has four Olympic Gold medals in his trophy cabinet as also a Silver medal that he secured almost 12 years ago in the Sydney Olympic Games of 2000, but with three events in the upcoming London Olympic Games that are considered to be his forte, Hoy could as well add three more medals to his tally, thus, becoming the most successful athlete for Great Britain in the Olympic Games.
Carol spoke of how she managed to convince her son to first pursue his studies in the University before he took a plunge to cycling, she admitted that it was beyond her expectation that Sir Chris Hoy would indeed take up cycling as his career option and would still have the same passion for it almost three decades after he began his love affair with the two wheels.
According to Carol, the family brought up Chris in his youth to do well in his studies in school; it was considered to be an absolute necessity in the family. She also stated that when her son came up to her and said that he wanted to continue with cycling after joining a University, she was okay with it, but in her mind, she was confused as her son had a good degree but still wanted to ride a bike on tracks.
But Carol is immensely proud of the achievements of Sir Chris Hoy and admits that she has no hard feelings now that he did not make use of the degree.
January 28th, 2012 will see the season finale of the Revolution at the National Cycling Centre at the Manchester Velodrome, an event that will mark the end of the winter track season and kick off the final preparatory phase ahead of the London Olympic Games and one person who is looking forward to taking part in the event is Sir Chris Hoy, Great Britain’s Olympic hero. The World Track Championships as well as the London World Cup are the two final events ahead of the Olympic Games on home soil for the Scotsman and he is looking forward to getting back on the competitive circuit after a couple of months of training Down Under.
According to the Scotsman, the Revolution presents to all the cyclists an opportunity to get back to competitive racing and trying out their form ahead of the two major events before the Olympic Games. Sir Chris Hoy also added that the training camp that he has had at Perth, Australia has been long and hard and it would be good to get back to racing and see how the hard work put in the camp has paid off.
He went to add that the Revolution has always been a special event to him, particularly due to the strong home support that he receives and with a challenging sprint lineup confirmed for the Revolution, he is looking forward to beating off the competition and win the title. Hoy will have Ross Edgar, Matt Crampton and Jason Kenny, who was recently crowned as the sprint world champion for company when he takes to the tracks.
But Sir Chris Hoy is hopeful that he has worked hard enough during the camp Down Under to beat his compatriots and bring the title home to boost his confidence ahead of the major events this year.
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