What It Takes to Become an Olympic Triathlete

Alex Yee does not seem like an Olympic champion when you meet him. Slight and polite, he admits he still feels like “a child” in his sport, and has just spent a day avoiding dogs, mobility scooters and fishermen at a park near Loughborough. Fitting really, as legs, wheels and water are the triathlete’s triptych, but the Briton is building to a goal that will stop the clocks. When the heat is on in Tuesday’s race in Paris, he will use two words to fuel his dream: “What’s next?”

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All those training sessions by Charnwood Water and at Loughborough University have brought him to the Pont Alexandre III, with its gilded statues. Yee, 26, was the silver medallist in Tokyo and champion in the mixed relay, but this may be even tougher. Kristian Blummenfelt is Norway’s elite lab rat, swigging £1,000 bottles of water infused with oxygen isotopes and having his faeces tested by University of Eindhoven scientists.

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