Four years of blood, sweat and doubt – and immense talent – culminate in Hoy taking ride of his life
It was just after 4pm and Sir Chris Hoy was gently preparing for the greatest sporting moment of his life, riding his bicycle on instinct, almost without thought or purpose.
At 6pm, this force of nature was bantering with press men with all the malevolence of a junior manager at his boss's dinner party. Yet the intervening two hours had witnessed two races that crowned Hoy as the greatest ever British Olympian.
