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
knowing training done
If you go to the line knowing you have given it absolutely 100% in every training session you have done, you know that there's nothing else you could have done and that helps you to deal with the pressure.
athens crowd half seemed stadium
The crowd was unbelievable. We're in Athens and yet half the stadium seemed crammed with British,
I went really hard, I didn't feel so much pressure.
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.
best bit mates
We'll go from best mates to rivals, which can be a bit odd.