'This is the essence of track racing' - Chris Hoy on season two of the Track Champions League

Six-time Olympic gold medallist says he wishes he had something like this during his record-breaking track career

Chris Hoy
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Chris Hoy doesn’t really want to talk about cycling. Instead, he’s regaling us with anecdotes about his time on a yet-unaired episode of Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel, BBC One’s current Saturday night quiz show offering.

He reveals, spoiler alert, that he ends up being beaten by Bez out of the Happy Mondays. He would like to go on Pointless Celebrities, but hasn’t quite got the call yet.

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Adam Becket
News editor

Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling on tarmac, he's happy. Before joining Cycling Weekly he spent two years writing for Procycling, where he interviewed riders and wrote about racing, speaking to people as varied as Demi Vollering to Philippe Gilbert. Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.