Chris Hoy

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 13 May 2007, 22:14

still got a shout at the 1km record

go boy go!

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 14 May 2007, 21:28

Chris is the THE man

Chris Hoy failed by the narrowest of margins to claim the world Kilo record in La Paz, falling just 5 thousandths of a second outside Arnaud Tournant's record. However, Hoy did come away with a world record when he broke Arnaud Duble's record for the standing start 500m by over a second.

Incredible performances.

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 14 May 2007, 22:14

Pal of Porty wrote:Chris is the THE man

falling just 5 thousandths of a second outside Arnaud Tournant's record.

That's about 2cm in the kilometre. How close can you get? (yeah alright, I know you can get closer, but heck!)

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 16 Aug 2008, 13:09

Great to see Chris Hoy doing so well. Hope he gets his target of 3 golds.

Must have been fun in this Portobello living room

BeachBum · Post by **BeachBum** » 18 Aug 2008, 21:22

Marya wrote:Great to see Chris Hoy doing so well.

Agreed........Good to see the wider team GB doing well in the medals table, though China and the USA are way in front!

Olympics medals table on BBC Sport website

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 19 Aug 2008, 12:49

Yay! It was great to watch him do it!

cornerboy · Post by **cornerboy** » 19 Aug 2008, 17:49

Was up at the Hoys (Chris's uncle and aunt) in Brunstane Road this morning. Scenes of bedlam among the assembled company when he won that second race - corks popping, Evening News were there (again) taking pics, tears and hollers, bairns jumping up and down. Hard to over-estimate the scale of Hoy's achievement, and that of the entire cycling team. When you're hot, you're hot!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 19 Aug 2008, 21:31

Heard there's talk of naming the Glasgow velodrome after him
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7570483.stm

seashell · Post by **seashell** » 21 Aug 2008, 08:37

Heard there's talk of naming the Glasgow velodrome after him

Wouldn't it be nice if they refurbished the Meadowbank velodrome and named it after him? After all, that is where Chris used to train - and he's given his support to retaining the Meadowbank stadium.

Chris has done brilliantly - nice to see an Edinburgh boy (and a pupil of my old school) doing so well and being such an inspiration.

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 24 Aug 2008, 10:48

Is it true Chris Hoy is a Hearts fan?

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 24 Aug 2008, 11:31

Robin! wrote:Is it true Chris Hoy is a Hearts fan?

Nobody's perfect!!

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 25 Aug 2008, 11:56

Poppy wrote:
Robin! wrote:Is it true Chris Hoy is a Hearts fan?
Nobody's perfect!!

Hmm, noticed how you coloured the font green

Lava Lamp · Post by **Lava Lamp** » 29 Aug 2008, 15:07

I'm no expert (evidently) but Hoy was about twice as big and muscled as all the other cyclists at the Olympics. I appreciate if your off to do the Tour it helps to be a bit lighter but surely if you need to go round the track half a dozen times you'd be better with a bit more power. Hoy seems to have cracked this but eveyone else got it all wrong? I think in 2012 we'll see a different build of cyclist.