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he got to Moscow he visited the Dutch team’s mechanic – ‘because we had no tools with us’, Hoy points out – and asked for a large set of clippers. With these he went to work adapting his plaster cast, removing the bit that covered his hand. That allowed him to grip the bars, though it was sore to do so. But, gingerly, he took the start line for the kilo, managed a personal best by ‘four or five tenths of a second’, recording 1 minute, 6 seconds, and placing twelfth of the twenty-five starters. ‘I was over the moon with that,’ he says. In first place, meanwhile, was an eighteen-year-old prodigy from France – Arnaud Tournant – who went three seconds faster than Hoy. When he returned, Hoy faced some awkward questions. His doctor asked, ‘What on earth have you done to your plaster cast?’ Hoy told him his hand had swollen up so badly that he had needed to modify it.Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
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