Chris Hoy
Chris Hoy
Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy, MBE, known as Chris Hoy, is a British racing driver and former track cyclist who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games...
ProfessionCyclist
Date of Birth23 March 1976
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
athens best night prepared turn
The work's done, you turn up on the night and do your best - I'm as well prepared if not better prepared than I was before the Athens Olympics.
beautiful brought cycling enjoy lucky pleasure quiet roads scenery
Cycling has brought me a lot of pleasure and, being a Scot, I know how lucky we are to have beautiful scenery and quiet roads to enjoy by bike.
begins boring events puts time tonight win
Two different nights, two different events. You can never make up for things, but tonight was special. You have the lows, and it puts everything in perspective, but if you win all the time it begins to get boring . . .
accept dealt eventually limits people time
This will all eventually have to be dealt with and confronted. It will take people a long time to accept that we are at the limits of growth.
expecting home
We're expecting to go home with some medals.
best bit mates
We'll go from best mates to rivals, which can be a bit odd.
enter incentive youngster
There is now no incentive for any youngster to enter the sport.
I went really hard, I didn't feel so much pressure.
atmosphere bit crowds forward front gets home racing revolution
I always look forward to Revolution as the racing and atmosphere with the crowds is unique. The 500m TT in front of the home crowd always gets that bit more out of you so it will be very special.
apart similar sprint
Sprinters now have nothing apart from the sprint and keirin, two very similar events,
brother ipods enemy
I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.
running team cycling
I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.
block fire racing
I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to racing though; it helps to fire me up plus it's good for blocking out the distractions around me.
night melbourne feels
Even when you feel as though everything is 100% it can still go wrong on the night (like in Melbourne!) so you never know for sure that you're going to do the performance you expect.