Alistair Brownlee: 'I’ve got to make the most of it while I can' | Sean Ingle

The 32-year-old triathlete on trying to win a third Olympic gold in Tokyo and smashing the ironman record in the next 18 months

I've just been out training for three and a half hours and it has rained for every single second," says Alistair Brownlee, in a tone that almost veers into relish. The weather is horrendous. Everywhere's flooded. You can hardly run anywhere because it's so muddy and wet." And yet the double Olympic triathlon champion still splishes and splashes on towards further glories, even in this bleakest of midwinters, having set his sights on an extraordinary double crescendo to cap his career.

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