Chris Hoy is Sound

Interesting article about Chris Hoy in The Guardian about fame, honours, and winning multiple gold medals at the Olympics. Sounds like he has his ego firmly in check. One of his coaches, Chris Sutton, says "'success changes some people but not Chris – same with this. He might be Sir Chris, quadruple Olympic champion, but he's the same fella.'

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To illustrate the point, two days after his knighthood was announced, Hoy and Jason Kenny, the Olympic gold and silver medallist, travelled to Holland for the Six Days of Rotterdam, alone and unsupported – with no coach or mechanic. Thus could Hoy be seen in track centre, spanner in hand, making adjustments to his bike – the equivalent would be to see Lewis Hamilton lying under his F1 car." Wrenching for himself. Sound as a pound, wha'? Read more here.