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‘Flying bicycle stunts’ in Spielberg’s movie ET inspired UK’s greatest Olympian Hoy
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Published on 3 Aug. 2012 9:53 PM IST
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Sir Chris Hoy, Britain’s most successful Olympian, took up BMX riding when he was six after being amazed by the flying bicycle stunts in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 film E.T. the extra-terrestrial.

Hoy raced the BMX until he was 14-years-old, becoming Scottish Champion, and then took up track sprint cycling, joining his first cycling club in Dunedin in 1992, The Daily Express reports.

Since 1996, he has been in the Great Britain national squad, and his first Olympic medal, the silver, came in Sydney, Australia, in 2000. He then went on to win a gold in Athens in 2004 and three gold medals in Beijing in 2008.

Last night’s gold means Hoy’s medal total equals Sir Steve Redgrave’s tally of six. But though each has five gold medals, Hoy has a silver medal, compared to the rower’s bronze, and is therefore, Britain’s most successful Olympian.

 
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