PURSUING SPORTING GREATNESS
It’s not just his rivals who know that if Alistair Brownlee’s in a race you don’t take your eyes off him. On the start line his mind remains as sharp as the acceleration he so often delivers. Come the biggest stage, Brownlee, like no other triathlete, has found a way to win, again and again. Now, he’s finished a four-year quest to pick the minds of kindred souls who do the same: rise to the top of their own sports, and stay there.
Relentless – Secrets of the Sporting Elite is the result. It’s been a passion project, and you don’t need to flick through many pages or spend long in the company of the double Olympic champion to be convinced of his insatiable curiosity for sporting excellence. As Brownlee says in the introduction when addressing the value of standing atop an Olympic podium: “For a sports obsessive such as myself, there’s one perk that beats all others: the access gold medals give you to the sporting elite.”
We catch up with the straight-talking Yorkshireman after a troublesome ankle cut his training camp in USA short and before he was disqualified at WTCS Leeds for ‘ducking’ fellow competitor Chase McQueen on the swim. The event marked the end of his hopes for a final Olympic outing, with brother Jonny and Leeds winner
